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Relativism and the meretricious hero

By Carolynne EstisPosted on February 6, 2013Posted in BlogsTagged altruism, bad, heroines, Auguste Comte, G.K. Chesterton, courage, action, Carolynne Estis, relativism, hero, Eragon, C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, heroes, Beowulf, good vs evil, The Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games, good

The word altruism is defined as concern for another without regard for injury to oneself. It is used, usually in psychology, to describe heroism—the act of risking your life for somebody else’s. The man who coined the word was Auguste Comte, the founder of positivism. Comte was by no means a great moral leader, or[…]

Elementary heroes

By Carolynne EstisPosted on January 9, 2013Posted in FeaturedTagged good and evil, moral decay, Carolynne Estis, modernism, Virtue, heroes, heroism, good vs evil, Sherlock Holmes, choices, strength and weakness, memory

Every hero in every story worth telling has at least one thing in common with every other decent hero ever written. Each one must face an enemy that is absolutely, one hundred percent matched to his own skills and strengths. This is the one enemy that can utterly destroy the hero, the one enemy that[…]