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In Response to Krystal “Antiheroic Inspiration”

7:33 PM |

In Response to Krystal “Antiheroic Inspiration”

Krystal posted a response to a blogpost written by Avery regarding the recent surge of flawed heroes within literature (or media in general). Avery briefly argued against the idea that this was a problem, which, according to Avery, is a stance that many theorists seem to have taken. Krystal, agreed with Avery, but also added that this subject reminded her of the contentions surrounding the topic of violence in video games.


I would have to agree with both Avery and Krystal in that it is problematic to claim antihero’s should not be popular because people might want to emulate there lackluster characteristics. However, I am not as sure about the comparison to violence in videogames. From the literature that I have on the subject, it seems that the relationship between violence and videogames is, well, quite simply overstated. However, this is not to say that there is no such thing. There has been researching successfully illustrating the fact that children will often intimidate actions that they witness other perform, including violence. However, no real causal link has been shown between video games and children’s behavior. Accordingly, I do not view antiheroes within fiction as being problematic because of the imitation factor, just as I do not view certain types of videogames as being problematic for the same reason. For the record, I do think there are other issues involved with allowing young children to play adult videogames, however I do not find the intimidation factor to be the problem.

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In Response to Tom "Claim for my philosophical essay"

5:39 PM |

In Response to Tom "Claim for my philosophical essay"



“Psychology provides valuable insight into emotion; psychology could thus elucidate and verify several points of any philosophical conversation involving emotion and literature, and should be taken into account in any and every one of those conversations.”


Subsequent to reading my previous post, which was written in response to a post written on the same subject by Nicole, it should be evident that I agree with Tom’s claim. Psychological theories and principles are invaluable within the context of philosophical conversation in general. However, with that being said, it seems that the claim that these things should be included in every single philosophical conversation is contentious.


Taken prima facie, it seems that there are numerous situations in which psychological principles would not be relevant in philosophical discussion. For example, the field to of psychology is relegated to the behavior of organisms (I would say primarily human behavior, as well). Accordingly, when we are not discussing the behavior or mental processes of an organism, it does not seem as though the field of psychology should be brought into the discussion. However, I should point out that this claim may hold on in reference to all discussions involving emotions. I think that it could be argued that psychological principles can always be applied in discussions involving emotions because emotions involve psychological processes. But, within the context of literature, I certainly think that there are discussions in which psychology is not appropriate.

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