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    Moral Heroism and the Requirement Claim.Kyle Fruh - 2014 - Southwest Philosophy Review 30 (1):93-104.
    Acts of moral heroism are often described by heroes as having been in some sense or another required. Here I elaborate two rival strategies for accounting for what I call the requirement claim. The first, originating with J.O. Urmson, attempts to explain away the phenomenon. The second and more popular among moralists is to treat the requirement claim as a moment of moral insight and to make sense of it in terms of moral duty. I argue that both of (...)
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    Heroism and Wisdom, Italian Style: From Roman Imperialists to Sicilian Magistrates.Raymond Angelo Belliotti - 2022 - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
    Heroism and Wisdom is an interdisciplinary work dissecting the lives, philosophies, and works of fourteen historically significant Italian figures to examine the topics of Italian history, culture, and moral psychology of notions such as practical wisdom, heroism, authenticity, honor, will to power, and leading a meaningful human life.
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  3. Heroism and history in Merleau-Ponty’s existential phenomenology.Bryan Smyth - 2010 - Continental Philosophy Review 43 (2):167-191.
    Whereas Phenomenology of Perception concludes with a puzzling turn to “heroism,” this article examines the short essay “Man, the Hero” as a source of insight into Merleau-Ponty’s thought in the early postwar period. In this essay, Merleau-Ponty presented a conception of heroism through which he expressed the attitude toward post-Hegelian philosophy of history that underwrote his efforts to reform Marxism along existential lines. Analyzing this conception of heroism by unpacking the implicit contrasts with Kojève, Aron, Caillois, and (...)
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  4. Heroism In Literature.Ibrahim Taha - 2002 - American Journal of Semiotics 18 (1-4):107-126.
    The semiotic model that disregards the normative context represented by the protagonist examines how we can distinguish the three conceptions of heroism, namely hero, semi-hero, and anti-hero. What are the methodological criteria whereby we can follow the protagonist in the text from beginning to end? To answer them, this article tries to present a model made up of five stages/criteria which constitute a semiotic model by means of which the connection to heroism can be determined. These are: (1) (...)
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    Viral Heroism: What the Rhetoric of Heroes in the COVID-19 Pandemic Tells Us About Medicine and Professional Identity.Patrick D. Hopkins - 2021 - HEC Forum 33 (1):109-124.
    Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic the use of the term “hero” has been widespread. This is especially common in the context of healthcare workers and it is now unremarkable to see large banners on hospital exteriors that say “heroes work here”. There is more to be gleaned from the rhetoric of heroism than just awareness of public appreciation, however. Calling physicians and nurses heroes for treating sick people indicates something about the concept of medicine and medical professionals. In this essay, (...)
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  6. Heroism and the Christian Life: Reclaiming Excellence.Brian S. Hook & R. R. Reno - 2000
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  7. Female heroism in Homerian Epics.Sylvie Rougier-Blanc - 2009 - Clio 30:17-38.
    Le mot « héroïne » en grec apparaît assez tardivement dans la littérature comme dans les inscriptions (début du ve s. av. J.-C). Il s’agit de réévaluer l’apport des épopées homériques à la question de la définition d’un héros au féminin. Jusqu’ici, la problématique historique s’était orientée autour de la question de l’attestation chez Homère de cultes héroïques, phénomène particulièrement florissants au viiie s. av. J.-C., souvent associé à la diffusion des poèmes épiques. Une autre approche consistait à chercher dans (...)
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  8. Heroism, hedonism, and happiness.Robert E. Fitch - 1939 - Hibbert Journal 38:33.
     
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    Negotiating Heroism and Humour in the Cattle-Raid of Cooley.Hildegard L. C. Tristram - 2014 - In Heike Sahm & Victor Millet (eds.), Narration and Hero: Recounting the Deeds of Heroes in Literature and Art of the Early Medieval Period. De Gruyter. pp. 113-142.
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    Redefining Heroism: A Tapestry Woven with Napoleon Bonaparte, Mikhail Kutuzov, Andrew Bolkonsky, Nicholas Rostov, Feodor Dolokhov, Captain Tushin, Pierre Bezukhov and Platon Karataev in War and Peace.Oidinposha Imamkhodjaeva - 2025 - Athens Journal of Philosophy 4 (1):47-66.
    In his monumental work, “War and Peace,” Leo Tolstoy boldly confronts the traditional depiction of heroism in the context of war. He meticulously deconstructs the archetype of the flawless leader, replacing it with a diverse ensemble of characters who redefine heroism through their actions, motivations, and in some instances, their pursuit of a meaningful life. This essay delves into Tolstoy’s innovative portrayal of heroism through an array of characters, both historical figures like Napoleon Bonaparte and Mikhail Kutuzov, (...)
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    Untangling Heroism: Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero.Ari Kohen - 2013 - New York: Routledge.
    The idea of heroism has become thoroughly muddled today. In contemporary society, any behavior that seems distinctly difficult or unusually impressive is classified as heroic: everyone from firefighters to foster fathers to freedom fighters are our heroes. But what motivates these people to act heroically and what prevents other people from being heroes? In our culture today, what makes one sort of hero appear more heroic than another sort? In order to answer these questions, Ari Kohen turns to classical (...)
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  12. Courage, heroism, and the postmodern paradox.Jiřina Šiklová - 2004 - Social Research: An International Quarterly 71 (1):135-148.
     
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  13. Idyllic heroism: Nietzsche's View of Epicurus.Marcin Miłkowski - 1998 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 15:70-79.
    In this paper, Nietzsche's interpretation of Epicurus is sketched. The ancient philosopher is seen as subscribing to 'idyllic heroism', i.e., heroically adopting an idyllic way of life.
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  14. Mindfulness-Based Heroism: Creating Enlightened Heroes.Patrick Jones - 2018 - Journal of Humanistic Psychology 5 (58):501-524.
    The field of mindfulness and the emerging science of heroism have a common interest in the causes and conditions of selfless altruism though up to this point there has been little cross-pollination. However, there is increasing evidence that mindfulness training delivers heroically relevant qualities such as increased attentional functioning, enhanced primary sensory awareness, greater conflict monitoring, increased cognitive control, reduced fear response, and an increase in loving kindness and self-sacrificing behaviors. Predicated on the notion of a “no self,” traditional (...)
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    Mexican heroism.M. P. Tomassi - 2008 - Journal of Medical Ethics 34 (5):324-324.
    After two weeks in La Barca, a small dirt-lined Mexican town known for its delicious tacos and endemic salmonellosis, it seemed I was serving a prison sentence rather than my sixth-semester surgery rotation. It was almost 11:00 on another insufferably humid day and I was in the operating room. I struggled to maintain my steady contorted position as I held the patient’s abdominal cavity open with surgical retractors for the chief surgeon and the resident. I had been plagued with a (...)
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  16. Humean heroism: Value commitments and the source of normativity.Valerie Tiberius - 2000 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 81 (4):426–446.
    This paper addresses the question "In virtue of what do practical reasons have normative force or justificatory power?" There seems to be good reason to doubt that desires are the source of normativity. However, I argue that the reasons to be suspicious of desire-based accounts of normativity can be overcome by a sufficiently sophisticated account. The position I defend in this paper is one according to which desires, or more generally, proattitudes, do constitute values and provide rational justifications of actions (...)
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    “Fascistoid” Heroism Revisited: A Deontological Twist to a Recent Debate.M. Andrew Holowchak - 2005 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 32 (1):96-104.
  18. The heroism paradox: another paradox of supererogation.Alfred Archer & Michael Ridge - 2015 - Philosophical Studies 172 (6):1575-1592.
    Philosophers are by now familiar with “the” paradox of supererogation. This paradox arises out of the idea that it can never be permissible to do something morally inferior to another available option, yet acts of supererogation seem to presuppose this. This paradox is not our topic in this paper. We mention it only to set it to one side and explain our subtitle. In this paper we introduce and explore another paradox of supererogation, one which also deserves serious philosophical attention. (...)
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    The Phenomenon of Heroism in the Understanding of Philosophical Anthropology.O. L. Prytula - 2024 - Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research 26:14-21.
    Мета. У сучасному глобальному суспільстві під питанням виявилися традиційні цінності, у тому числі патріотизм і героїзм. Однак нові виклики гібридної війни потребують нових виявів героїзму, а отже, і його нового філософського осмислення. Основною метою цієї статті є філософсько-антропологічне осмислення героїзму як граничного вияву сили духу, що поєднує інституційні засади суспільного блага та індивідуальну волю до його досягнення. Теоретичний базис. Феномен героїзму досліджено в класичних працях Гомера, Плутарха, Томаса Карлайла. Важливі сучасні філософсько-антропологічні інтерпретації цього феномену надають Фрідріх Ніцше, Гельмут Плеснер та (...)
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    Heroism-A Test of Ideas.Maria Golaszewska - 2000 - Analecta Husserliana 68:433-446.
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    Heroism and magnanimity: the post-modern form of self-conscious agency.Robert Brandom - 2019 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press.
    Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit points the way to a new, post-modern form of normativity, and so self-consciousness. Its practical aspect is a magnanimous form of agency exercised by self-conscious individuals who thereby create a new kind of recognitive community structured by rationalizing recollection in the form of confession, forgiveness, and trust.
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    Heroism in Sophocles’s Antigone.Willow Verkerk - 2014 - Philosophy and Literature 38 (1):282-291.
  23. Heroism, Hospitality, and Holiness: Generational Perspectives on the Church-World Relationship.Christopher Ruddy - 2004 - Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 7 (1).
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    Iliadic Heroism Mackie Rivers of Fire. Mythic Themes in Homer's Iliad. Pp. viii + 263. Washington, DC New Academia, 2009. Paper, US$26. ISBN: 978-0-9800814-2-8. [REVIEW]Roberto Nickel - 2011 - The Classical Review 61 (1):14-16.
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    A Prospective Framework for the Design of Ideal Artificial Moral Agents: Insights from the Science of Heroism in Humans.Travis J. Wiltshire - 2015 - Minds and Machines 25 (1):57-71.
    The growing field of machine morality has becoming increasingly concerned with how to develop artificial moral agents. However, there is little consensus on what constitutes an ideal moral agent let alone an artificial one. Leveraging a recent account of heroism in humans, the aim of this paper is to provide a prospective framework for conceptualizing, and in turn designing ideal artificial moral agents, namely those that would be considered heroic robots. First, an overview of what it means to be (...)
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    Heroism and ethical equality.Carl R. Kordig - 1980 - Journal of Value Inquiry 14 (3-4):217-227.
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  27. Heroism, Meaning and Organ Donation: A Reply to Fruh.Fuller Lisa - 2016 - American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 15 (2):27-29.
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    Apocalypse and heroism in popular culture: allegories of white masculinity in crisis.Katherine Sugg - 2022 - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.
    Over the past two decades, stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television. Zombie apocalypses, climate disasters, alien invasions, global pandemics and dystopian world orders fill our screens-typically with a singular figure or tenacious group tasked with saving or salvaging the world. Why are stories of End Times crisis so popular with audiences? And why is the hero so often a white man who overcomes personal struggles and incredible obstacles to lead humanity toward a restored future? This (...)
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  29. Primitive heroism or heroism of the" pastorale galante"? The dilemma of Vico as revealed in documents of the Holy Office.G. Costa - 2000 - Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 20 (1):88-98.
     
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    De-Moralizing Heroism.Bryan Smyth - 2020 - Southwest Philosophy Review 36 (1):65-74.
    Agents’ self-reports in cases of reactive heroism often deny the optionality, and hence the supererogatory status, of their actions, while conversely supporting a view of these actions in terms of nonselfsacrificial existential necessity. Taking such claims seriously thus makes it puzzling as to why such cases elicit strong approbation. To resolve this puzzle, I show how this necessity can be understood in the predispositional embodied terms of unreflective ethical expertise, such that the agent may be said literally to incarnate (...)
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    Heroism Is Not a Plan—From “Duty to Treat” to “Risk and Rewards”.Thomas D. Kirsch - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (12):3-6.
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    On sacrificial heroism.Adam Lankford - 2013 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 16 (5):634-654.
    For thousands of years people have saved their loudest praise for individuals who made ?the ultimate sacrifice.' Recently, however, many people have begun to equate suicide terrorism with sacrificial heroism. These assertions benefit from a general lack of conceptual clarity regarding the nature of sacrificial heroism itself. Therefore, this paper aims to explore, describe, and define sacrificial heroism, arguing that it requires two primary things: the risk of something highly valued; and the attempt to achieve a directly (...)
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    The Heroism of the Rational.Carol Johnson - 1964 - Renascence 17 (2):89-96.
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    Heroism, self-abnegation and the liberal organization.Christopher Vasillopulos - 1988 - Journal of Business Ethics 7 (8):585 - 591.
    Chester Barnard's classic, The Functions of the Executive, is premised on an Aristotelean conception of human nature. This reliance ramifies throughout his analysis of the cooperative basis of human organizations. Perhaps its most important manifestation appears in his definition of willing cooperation as self-abnegation. For by so removing cooperation from its utilitarian and contractarian assumptions, he avoids the well known criticisms of those assumptions while retaining his fundamental liberalism. Put positively, self-abnegation informs Barnard's liberalism with an heroic dimension. This, in (...)
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    Heroism Age Of Kirghiz.Mehmet Yilmaz - 2008 - Journal of Turkish Studies 3:984-1000.
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    Heroism and Marginalization within Norrington's Blade and Wiseman's Underworld.Kelsey Cummings - 2011 - Semiotics:321-328.
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    Nostalgia and Heroism: Theoretical Convergence of Memory, Motivation, and Function.Scott T. Allison & Jeffrey D. Green - 2020 - Frontiers in Psychology 11.
    This article seeks to develop theoretical convergences between the science of nostalgia and the science of heroism. We take four approaches in forging a conceptual relationship between these two phenomena. First, we examine the definitions of nostalgia and heroism from scholars, laypeople, and across cultures, noting how the history of defining the two phenomena has shaped current conceptualizations. Second, we demonstrate how nostalgic experiences consist of reminiscences about our own personal heroism and about cultural role models and (...)
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    Historical and experimental evidence of sexual selection for war heroism.Hannes Rusch, Joost M. Leunissen & Mark van Vugt - 2015 - Evolution and Human Behavior 36 (5):367-373.
    We report three studies which test a sexual selection hypothesis for male war heroism. Based on evolutionary theories of mate choice we hypothesize that men signal their fitness through displaying heroism in combat. First, we report the results of an archival study on US-American soldiers who fought in World War II. We compare proxies for reproductive success between a control sample of 449 regular veterans and 123 surviving Medal of Honor recipients of WWII. Results suggest that the heroes (...)
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    Virtue and Heroism.Julia Annas - unknown
    This is the text of the Lindley Lecture for 2015 given by Julia Annas, an American philosopher.
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    Heroism on an empty stomach”: Weil and hillesum on love and happiness amid the holocaust1.Timothy P. Jackson - 2012 - Journal of Religious Ethics 40 (1):72-98.
    I do four things in this essay: (1) briefly rehearse the biographies of Simone Weil and Etty Hillesum, (2) outline and compare some of the key themes in their lives and works, noting interesting (and also troubling) similarities between them, as well as salient differences, (3) use their examples as lenses through which to look at contemporary attitudes toward altruism vs. self-interest, freedom vs. necessity, eating vs. fasting, and acting vs. writing, and (4) highlight both their strengths and their weaknesses (...)
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    From Melbourne, Australia: Everyday Heroism.Joel Hodge - 2020 - The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion 64:18-20.
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  42. Philosophy without heroism : Montaigne and the vanity of autobiography.D. G. Wright - 2005 - In Thomas Mathien & D. G. Wright (eds.), Autobiography as Philosophy: The Philosophical Uses of Self-Presentation. New York: Routledge.
     
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    The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading (review).Victoria Pedrick - 2006 - American Journal of Philology 127 (2):309-312.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:American Journal of Philology 127.2 (2006) 309-312 [Access article in PDF] Mark Buchan. The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading. The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. x + 282 pp. Cloth, $65. Buchan's introduction challenges the critical consensus on the Odyssey as both "too teleological" and "not teleological enough." The epic's partisan perspective on its hero, (...)
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    Ancestral war and the evolutionary origins of heroism.Oleg Smirnov, Holly Arrow, Douglas Kennett & John Orbell - manuscript
    Primatological and archaeological evidence along with anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies indicate that lethal between-group violence may have been sufficiently frequent during our ancestral past to have shaped our evolved behavioral repertoire. Two simulations explore the possibility that heroism (risking one's life fighting for the group) evolved as a specialized form of altruism in response to war. We show that war selects strongly for heroism but only weakly for a domain-general altruistic propensity that promotes both heroism and (...)
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    Distinguishing Professionalism and Heroism When Disaster Strikes.Joseph J. Fins - 2015 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24 (4):373-384.
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    Ich kann nicht anders: Social Heroism as Nonselfsacrificial Practical Necessity.Bryan Smyth - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
    Most self-reports of heroic action in both reactive and social (proactive) cases describe the experience as involving a kind of necessity. This seems intuitively sound, but it makes it unclear why heroism is accorded strong approbation. To resolve this, I show that the necessity involved in heroism is a nonselfsacrificial practical necessity. (1) Approaching the intentional structure of human action from the perspective of embodiment, focusing especially on the predispositionality of pre-reflective skill, I develop a phenomenological interpretation of (...)
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  47. Freedom as atheistic heroism.James Collins - 1949 - Giornale di Metafisica 4 (6):573.
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    An evolutionary perspective on war heroism.Hannes Rusch & Charlotte Störmer - 2015 - Militaire Spectator 184 (3):140-150.
    Humans are one of the most cooperative and altruistic species on the planet. At the same time, humans have a long history of violent and deadly intergroup conflicts, i.e. wars. Recently, contemporary evolutionary theorists have revived Charles Darwin’s idea that human in-group altruism and out-group hostility might have co-evolved. Groups with more cooperatively aggressive men, they suggest, were more likely to prevail in the frequent lethal quarrels of human pre-history, and these men, therefore, more likely to have passed on their (...)
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    On the Existential Road From Regret to Heroism: Searching for Meaning in Life.Eric R. Igou, Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg, Elaine L. Kinsella & Laura K. Buckley - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
    We investigated whether regret predicted the motivation to act heroically. In a series of studies, we examined the relationship between regret, search for meaning in life, and heroism motivation. First, Study 1 (a and b) established the link between regret and search for meaning in life, considering regret as a whole, action regret, and inaction regret. Specifically, regret correlated positively with search for meaning in life. In additional two studies, we examined whether regret predicted the heroism motivation and (...)
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    National Emotions and Heroism in King Vajiravudh’s Anti-Chinese Propaganda Writing.Wasana Wongsurawat - 2016 - Diogenes 63 (1-2):48-62.
    The royalist nationalist propaganda writings of King Vajiravudh Rama VI—acclaimed author of the infamous Jews of the Orient, published originally in Thai since 1914—represent some of the finest examples of Anti-Chinese propaganda penned by major nationalist leaders of Thailand in the 20th century. Vajiravudh was a prolific author who produced more than a thousand fictional and non-fictional pieces within his lifetime literary oeuvre. A significant portion of these works was intended as political propaganda, many of which could be justifiably categorized (...)
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