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Willingness Agony Pain Danger Uncertainty Intimidation Act Rightly Shame Scandal Classical Virtue Perseverance Patience

Physical courage involves facing physical pain, hardship, death or threats of death, while moral courage means acting rightly despite opposition, shame or loss. Courage also includes perseverance and patience. Notable philosophers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas discussed courage in Western tradition, while Eastern traditions like Tao Te Ching and examples from the Ramayana and Mahabharata explored both physical and moral courage. Recently, psychology has also studied the concept of courage.

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Willingness Agony Pain Danger Uncertainty Intimidation Act Rightly Shame Scandal Classical Virtue Perseverance Patience

Physical courage involves facing physical pain, hardship, death or threats of death, while moral courage means acting rightly despite opposition, shame or loss. Courage also includes perseverance and patience. Notable philosophers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas discussed courage in Western tradition, while Eastern traditions like Tao Te Ching and examples from the Ramayana and Mahabharata explored both physical and moral courage. Recently, psychology has also studied the concept of courage.

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Courage (also called 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) is also translated "courage", but includes the
aspects of perseverance and patience.[1]
In the Western tradition, notable thoughts on courage have come from
philosophers, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and Kierkegaard.
Much earlier, in the Hindu tradition, mythology has given many examples of bravery, valour and
courage. Ramayana and Mahabharatha have in them many examples of both physical and moral
courage.
In the Eastern tradition, some thoughts on courage were offered by the Tao Te Ching. More recently,
courage has been explored by the discipline of psychology.

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