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The worlds of Watchmen
Watchmen | Zack Snyder | 2009

Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana, Colombia

Abstract

This work relates several narratives taken from Watchmen, graphic novel that was adapted in the cinema, with reflection contexts of moral and political philosophy. The work confronts the worlds inhabited by the internal demons that lurk in human beings, and dialogues with some understandings of Kant, Mill, Bentham, Hobbes or Nietzsche. The history of the vigilantes is an opportunity to reflect on the human condition, its dilemmas and its contradictions. Hell is always around the corner, but in the end all is not lost. We will have gained too much if we opt for a greater awareness of our fears and constant ambiguities. To assume our condition and fight for the ideals of truth and justice from a correct understanding is the exercise that is proposed.

Key Words: fear | God | human condition | joke | moral dilemma | punishment | state | utility.

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Los mundos de Watchmen


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