Daredevil a young boy hit by toxic waste truck in an attempt to save an old mans life. Blinded by the accident and left with his other senses hightend. Under the tutelage of the old ninja master Stick He learns to harness his abilities and block out the assaulting sounds and smells of the city that would otherwise drive him insane. Soon after His Father, a boxer and hired muscle, is killed by some locals thugs because he would not throw a fight arranged by his mafia boss.
With his dying Father in his arms the smell of the old boxing gym that Daredevil loved so much surrounding him he could have given up and lived a quite unassuming life. Instead He devotes himself to the law and the pursuit of justice. He does this not because of a desire for revenge or because he wants to, but because he feels it is his duty. It something that must be done and if everyone did the world would be a place of peace, but just because others are not is no excuse for him not to.
It is not just as Daredevil that this duty applies. He also devotes his life to becoming a lawyer and once he is one uses the law to try and make his city a better place. All this from a sense of duty. Even after having the two women he loved die in his arms he still can not give up the sense of duty that drives him to be Daredevil. It is his belief in objective moral values that enables him to see what is required of him and what duties he has.
Except for the fact that Daredevil has been lying about his identity for years he could be seen as a moral saint under the Kantian ethical framework.
I think it is the duty aspect of Kant's morality that makes so many noir characters so interesting. The drive to do what they feel must be done no matter how they actually feel about the situation.
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