On Courage
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On Courage

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
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On Courage

About this book

What is courage and why is it one of the oldest and most universally admired virtues? How is it relevant in the world today, and what contemporary forms does it take?

In this insightful and crisply written book, Geoffrey Scarre examines these questions and many more. He begins by defining courage, asking how it differs from fearlessness, recklessness and fortitude, and why people are often more willing to ascribe it to others than to avow it for themselves. He also asks whether courage can serve bad ends as well as good, and whether it can sometimes promote confrontation over compromise and dialogue.

On Courage explores the ideas of Aristotle, Aquinas and many later philosophers who have written about courage, as well as drawing on classic and recent examples of courage in politics and fiction, including the German anti-Nazi "White Rose Movement", the modern phenomenon of "whistle-blowing", and Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780415471060
eBook ISBN
9781136973314
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Index

akrasia (weakness of will) 53–54, 59
andreia (manliness) 11, 65, 70
Antigone 70
Aquinas, St Thomas 2, 3, 51–52, 54–55, 79–81, 82, 84, 93–94
Aristotle 3, 5, 6–11, 17, 20, 27, 31, 32–35, 37, 64, 66, 67, 71, 90, 107–108, 109, 111, 126, 128, 159n3, 160n1, 162n2, 164n1
Asperger’s Syndrome 19
Aurelius, Marcus (Emperor) 96, 163n7
Auschwitz 91
Austen, Jane 91–92
Austin, J.L. 103, 164n12

Bauhn, Per 116, 118–120
Being and Time (Heidegger)151
Bernstein, Leonard 132
Bolsin, S. 146
bravery see courage
Brown, Gordon 108, 160n9
Bryson, Bill 148–149
Burnet, Gilbert 59
Bushido 129

Callan, Eamonn 72, 96
Calvinism 154
Canus, Julius 102–103, 106
cardinal virtue 2–3, 84, 114, 144 (see also courage as a virtue)
Cato the Younger 98–99
Chan, W.-P. 146
Churchill, Sir Winston 2–3, 124
Cicero, Marcus Tullius 113–114
Civil War, US 18, 104, 111–112, 137–139
Clausewitz, Carl von 63
Conrad, Joseph 92
conscientious objectors 63–64
Constancie (Herbert) 158
continence 6–11, 18
corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH)76
costly signalling theory (CST) 76–78
courage: “abstractionist view” of 117–118, 120; and autonomy 39–40; in children 85; cultural variations 5, 12–13, 129; and explanation of action 41–46; and fear of hell 153–154, 165n4; and fearlessness 14–21, 37–38; and good ends Ch.5 passim; and manliness Ch.3 pass...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Locating Courage: One
  7. The Reality of Courage: Two
  8. Cardinal Virtue or Macho Vice?: Three
  9. Fortitude: Four
  10. Courage and Goodness: Five
  11. Courage: An Outdated Virtue?: Six
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index