Hero and Heroic Ideal - Symposium

Table of contents :
Introduction
The Hero and the Heroic Ideal in Great Books of the Western World
We Must Have Heroes S. L. A. Marshall
No More Heroes Ron Dorfman
Heroism and Fortitude Josef Pieper
Heroes in Black and White Joy Gould Boyum
The Hero as a World Figure Sidney Hook
Heroes for an Ordinary World Chaim Potok

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The Hero and the Heroic Ideal A Symposium

The Great Ideas Today 1973

Helen Hemingway Benton, Publisher

Encyclopa:dia Britannica, Inc. Chicago • London • Toronto • Geneva • Sydney • Tokyo • Manila • Johannesburg • Seoul

Contents

The Hero and the Heroic Ideal: A Symposium Introduction The Hero and the Heroic Ideal in Great Books of the Western World We Must Have Heroes S. L. A. Marshall No More Heroes Ron Dorfman Heroism and Fortitude Josef Pieper Heroes in Black and White Joy Gould Boyum The Hero as a World Figure Sidney Hook Heroes for an Ordinary World Chaim Potok

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Introduction

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ach year for a number of years the editors of The Great Ideas Today ha\'e presented a symposium in which eminent penons undertake to discuss an idea that is of current interest. Each time this has been done, four or fi\'e such persons ha\'e been in\'ited to contribute to the discussion. L'sually they ha\'e been persons of very different backgrounds, with ex­ tremely di\'ergent ,·iews of the subject at hand, whose comments ha,·e reflected these disparities, sometimes to good effect and sometimes not. The editors ha\'e therefore thought it proper to bring a measure of unity to the proceedings In adding a son of coda or appendix in which they recall the wa,s in which the idea being considered is treated in the great book