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Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

The Virtue Of Courage

The Virtue Of Courage “The Virtue of Courage” without humility is self-serving, reckless, and dangerous. Another problem with courage is that people believe that it is unusual. “Thou shall not be judgmental” is one of the cardinal canons of political correctness. Political correctness, of course, has little regard for the...

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What Is Fortitude?

What Is Fortitude? Fortitude is an engaging virtue. And when it shines from a stage, and comes directly from the heart, unrehearsed, it can prove overpowering. “No, don’t go,” the audience chanted. “Talk to us! Talk to us!” Any writer or film director, these days, living in complete comfort and...

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What Is Courage?

What Is Courage? This article covers the answer to the question: “What Is Courage?“ In the discussions of ethics, courage is considered to be a moral virtue. In the history of philosophy, the concept of courage as a moral virtue originates primarily from the virtue ethics of Plato and Aristotle. Medieval philosophers, who drew upon the ideas...

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Courage

What Is Courage? Courage (bravery or valour) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Physical courage is bravery in the face of physical pain, hardship, death or threat of death, while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal, discouragement, or personal loss. The classical virtue of fortitude (andreia, fortitudo)...

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Fortitude

Fortitude Fortitude as one of the gifts from the Holy Ghost is a supernatural virtue, and passes beyond the Aristotelian range. (1) Manliness is etymologically what is meant by the Latin word virtus and by the Greek andreia, with which we may compare arete (virtue), aristos (best), and aner (man)....