Moral Absolutes | ScienceGate

Bevin argues that Grant Morrison’s contribution to DC’s New 52 presents readers with a Superman who starts his career as a partisan social activist fighting for the rights of the most vulnerable in society but who transitions to a superhero who defends “everyone” as his story progresses. Bevin places his analysis in the context of Morrison’s earlier work to argue that his tenure on Action Comics follows his well-established thematic preoccupations and that Superman’s development throughout mirrors the writer’s own political evolution from a critic of Margaret Thatcher’s right-wing United Kingdom government to a popular philosopher suspicious of any strict political dogma, conservative, liberal, or otherwise. Bevin also applies the theories offered by cultural materialist Alan Sinfield in Faultline (1992) to suggest that, as a result of his political development, Morrison is now suspicious of moral absolutes and clear binary divisions.

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Moral Taxonomy and Moral Absolutes

Wisdom's Apprentice ◽

10.2307/j.ctt284wtj.16 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 237-259

Author(s):

Kevin L. Flannery

Keyword(s):

Moral Absolutes

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Tragedy Today

PMLA ◽

10.1632/pmla.2014.129.4.830 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 129 (4) ◽

pp. 830-833

Author(s):

Carey Perloff

Keyword(s):

Greek Tragedy ◽

Shared Values ◽

Recent Experience ◽

Ethical Norms ◽

Moral Absolutes

Irony and tragedy have always been uneasy bedfellows. thus, it is no surprise that in cynical eras such as ours, in which there are no moral absolutes, no clear beliefs, no accepted authority, and no commonly shared values or ethical norms, the act of producing a Greek tragedy requires a different lens. Even so, my recent experience shows that the plays continue to exert a peculiar hold on contemporary imaginations and can find startling resonances for modern audiences.

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