A review by zhelana
Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way by

3.0

This book was not as good as the other books in this series that I have read. The primary problem I had with it was a longer "metachapter" on why be good in the first place asking why anyone would become a superhero rather than a super villain. This was a series of about 5 shorter chapters, and by the end of it they were all running together and all seemed to say the same thing. I get it already! We started with a chapter on why be religious and ended with a chapter on needing to be religious to be good, even though, as the first author argued, superheroes are largely not religious. It was a bit odd. It was also a little harder than usual to follow this book because they only rarely touched on superhero movies, and rather discussed the comics more. Also, I am strictly a Marvel girl, and they spent a lot of time on minor DC characters, but not as much on minor Marvel characters. Also probably half the book was either Superman or Batman, and again, I'm really pretty strictly a Marvel girl. I know the basics of Superman and Batman, of course, but not a lot of the details. Anyway, if you like DC, and especially if you like Superman and Batman, you might rate this book higher than I did, but if you really like Marvel, this probably isn't the book for you.