I like fiction that gives you insight into what it might really be like, from the inside, to be heroic or to have high aspirations. Not "here's a saintly/heroic character I could never emulate" but "from inside this headspace, it's just normal."
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(The Just City is great because it conveys a culture where real people try to live up to the ideals of Classical Greek philosophy, in a way that would seem naively idealistic in our current world, but actually came across as compelling and believable in the novels.)
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(Hard SF like Vinge or qntm rarely gets praised for its characterization, and it's subtle, but often it depicts a social context where *most* of the on-screen characters are helpful, constructive, thoughtful, and realistic, and take this for granted as normal behavior.)
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Pratchett, but I feel that's obvious.
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For a very mainstream pick, I thiink Sanderson's Words of Radiance series qualifies. The main characters generally start off as good people with modest aspirations that gradually ratchet up their heroism/goals in response to events. Each step feels like an understandable response
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