I Am Not a Hero: How Heroic Action Divorces the Hero from the Political Community
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
Published online on April 11, 2024
Abstract
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Most people who perform a heroic act will, afterward, deny that their actions were heroic and claim that anyone would have done the same, even though that is demonstrably false (and, often, others were present who failed to act heroically at all). The ...
Most people who perform a heroic act will, afterward, deny that their actions were heroic and claim that anyone would have done the same, even though that is demonstrably false (and, often, others were present who failed to act heroically at all). The ...