What is Courage?

What is courage is it the ability to prove himself in war? Or decide the power you do not fight. Courage is yourself when you differ from others. Do you do what you think you can not do even your own father? Courage is synonymous with honor. Even if it risks you, will you say it? An adventure for your most important person. Or risk a stranger. Regardless of the size, please give courage to stand up against your fears.

What defines courage? What makes people brave? Selfless behavior, bold stunt, escape from normal, what adheres to your faith, is brave action? Today, brave people are showing courage every day. Iraqi soldiers, firefighters running in smoking rooms, smoking cessation habits, protesters. Things, most people can not do what they can. My father 's grandmother set up Philippine immigrants ten times to their houses until they could go on their own. What my grandmother did was illegal, but it was also brave. She takes care of those who need to go home to find evacuation centers, so she puts safety and reputation aside. She takes care of four children, each child watching at least their payment or shelter at least once a week. It is very brave to put her loved one in her heart before she becomes happy.

Such a common word "COURAGE". Since we were children, we told the story of courage and heroism. We read a poem about courage. The courage of the great Alexandre, Napoleon, and Hitler also was full of courage. Romeo and Juliet, Lyra and Mayu, Gandhi, Courage of Martin Luther King. It is said that all great men are full of courage. I have not seen these people, so I always have difficulty understanding the courage through their story. I do not understand that killing so many people and dominating the world makes you brave or embarrasses the empire. The way to die for love and equality encourages you. People around me are in love with each other, but of course they will not die for it, except for the situation of "honor killing". In addition to terrorism, extreme socialism, and criminal capitalism, they certainly will not murder. Except for the Middle East and African coup, the empire never loses.

There are various forms of courage. Examples include the courage to do the right, the courage to face personal fear, the courage to accept unnaturalness, the courage to withstand the physical and mental suffering for self improvement, the courage to advance the setback, the courage to convey the truth, the behavior Courage to do, etc. Courage to trust, courage to love, courage to promise. In each of Aristotle, Mortimer Adler interprets the definition of Aristotle's courage as a habitual trend of taking what we should do for a better life. Every kind of pain. It is very simple, which means doing what we know we need to do, regardless of challenge or difficulty. For example, some people know essentially that they need exercise to live a healthy life, but many people are rationalizing that for some reason it is effective. Aristotle believes this is the lack of courage.