Asher Imagine a human called Asher.Philosophy bear is a reader-supported publication.
This is called the randomized Condorcet method in social choice theory. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00355-017-1031-2
Darth Vader is quite like Asher!
I am surprised you think this! Darth Vader achieves redemption in the eyes of his child, saves his child and even in some mystical sense returns to the light, that seems much more like the typical redemption narrative than Asher's story.
I admittedly forgot that he becomes a Jedi force ghost rather than a Sith, which does indicate a return to the light.
I was more thinking in the direction of:
-his action was just as much to save the universe as to save his child
-he will never be redeemed in the eyes of anyone except *maybe* Luke
-there's no chance of him becoming a "good" or even "complex" character - he is an evil person who did one good thing in the end
Agreed that it doesn't *quite* fit, though.
This is called the randomized Condorcet method in social choice theory. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00355-017-1031-2
Darth Vader is quite like Asher!
I am surprised you think this! Darth Vader achieves redemption in the eyes of his child, saves his child and even in some mystical sense returns to the light, that seems much more like the typical redemption narrative than Asher's story.
I admittedly forgot that he becomes a Jedi force ghost rather than a Sith, which does indicate a return to the light.
I was more thinking in the direction of:
-his action was just as much to save the universe as to save his child
-he will never be redeemed in the eyes of anyone except *maybe* Luke
-there's no chance of him becoming a "good" or even "complex" character - he is an evil person who did one good thing in the end
Agreed that it doesn't *quite* fit, though.