Aristotle's Definition Of Courage

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When someone thinks about the mean of something, usually it involves numbers or some sort of mathematical concept, but Aristotle introduces mean in a different way. He explains that to be able to have our end purpose we must find a mean between each virtuous activity that helps contribute to our end; happiness. For example the mean between courage lies between two extremes. Excessive courage is called “rashness”. Not having any courage is called “cowardice”. Aristotle states “Thus we see that self-control and courage are destroyed by excess and by deficiency and are preserved by the mean.”(pg.36) to bring attention to the fact that a mean for one is going to be different for the mean of another human. Each mean is on a spectrum and relative

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