Ethical Reasoning Assignment In Michael Clarke’s Manhood and heroism, he portrays 2 clear motivations that ultimately drive Greek heroes to do anything. One of which was “the noblemen are honoured by their people because they achieve fame…”, this was also known as “kleos”. Looking to society today, a hero that is depicted today usually as someone who is selfless and makes sacrifices for others. That is almost the opposite of the motivation of kleos. Although fame may come with the hero’s actions that is usually not his driving force. In fact, having kleos as motivation is actually seen as a characteristic of a villain today. They want to be seen or remembered so they do an incredible act that is often not for the better good. On the other
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In a situation that I am going to explain to you, Achilles will experience both of the forces. As we know Agamemnon upset Achilles by taking his prize and to get back at him Achilles decides to withdraw from the fighting, which is a big blow for the Greek side. As suspected the Greeks suffered without Achilles, so in efforts to rally the troops Patroclus took Achilles’s armor into battle. Hector as well as everyone else thought it was Achilles and killed him. At this point Achilles was contemplating leaving the war and to forget about his kleos that he would get if he stayed and died here, to be forever told in the future tales. However, on the word of Patroclus’s death Achilles is so overcome with anger and grief he forgets about Agamemnon and fights for a different reason, for revenge and love for his dead friend. This is what triggers his agenor and from there he enters a state described by Clarke as “heights of action, thought and emotion that approach the level of gods.”. Comparing Achilles’s situation with one of say Batman, I would think the reaction between the two would be somewhat similar. However, I don’t think Batman would kill an entire city practically, but I do think he would be carrying some rage with him if Robin to would have been killed. So, in the end after saying that heroes nowadays don’t have agenor I can now see that there may be some correlation between the
In a situation that I am going to explain to you, Achilles will experience both of the forces. As we know Agamemnon upset Achilles by taking his prize and to get back at him Achilles decides to withdraw from the fighting, which is a big blow for the Greek side. As suspected the Greeks suffered without Achilles, so in efforts to rally the troops Patroclus took Achilles’s armor into battle. Hector as well as everyone else thought it was Achilles and killed him. At this point Achilles was contemplating leaving the war and to forget about his kleos that he would get if he stayed and died here, to be forever told in the future tales. However, on the word of Patroclus’s death Achilles is so overcome with anger and grief he forgets about Agamemnon and fights for a different reason, for revenge and love for his dead friend. This is what triggers his agenor and from there he enters a state described by Clarke as “heights of action, thought and emotion that approach the level of gods.”. Comparing Achilles’s situation with one of say Batman, I would think the reaction between the two would be somewhat similar. However, I don’t think Batman would kill an entire city practically, but I do think he would be carrying some rage with him if Robin to would have been killed. So, in the end after saying that heroes nowadays don’t have agenor I can now see that there may be some correlation between the