The word “courage” comes from the Latin term “cor,” meaning “heart.” Even though we often assign this virtue to acts of physical fortitude, our mental and moral strength are just as worthy of such praise. Not all bravery is summoned equally. More than any other moral quality, courage tends to evoke feelings of admiration and awe.
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When we talk about brave deeds, it may seem appropriate to do so in a hushed whisper. But it would be a mistake to suppose that all courageous action is heroic action. While many of our favorite models and exemplars of courage are cases of almost unbelievable endurance or bravery in the face of danger, the virtue is as much at home in the cottage as in the castle, in the office as on the battlefield. Our thinking about courage will get off on the wrong foot unless two things are recognized at the outset: that courage can be manifested in quite ordinary circumstances, and that it is a quality that comes in degrees.
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Praise of courage has been universal in all human societies, though there has been wide cultural variation in the ideals and expectations associated with it. Societies have taken different views on whether courage is an appropriate virtue for all . While it has commonly been accepted that courage involves the mastery of fear, there has been less agreement on the forms that courage should take or the circumstances in which it should be exercised.
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Edens song “lost//found” provokes the emotion of courage in a unique way by arguing with himself. He makes the choice of aranging the music so its just him singing and his guitar. It doesn’t have a specific beat. He wants the song to connect to the listener by reminding them he is just a person. It is made to calm people, yet, make them ponder about each lyric, maybe to clear their mind from their own anxities. The title is lost//found. He alludes to losing himself and his audience gradually. He expected one outcome and ended up with a different one. He fears fading but he mentions “I won’t lose courage” but he only mentions it once while other lyrics come in a depressing manner. Eden seems to detail himself on a path to darkness, but if he “can help his luck” then he won’t end out in this depressing state that he can see himself in.
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It is hard to imagine what it would be like to be frightened of nothing. For normal human beings, as for other higher animals, feeling fear is as natural as breathing. Most people fear many things, both great and small, and though (if we are lucky) we may never have to face up to our worst nightmares, few of us are unfamiliar with the sweaty palms and parched lips that are typical physical complements to the emotion of fear. Fear is not, of course, a pleasant sensation, and it often obstruct our acting in the ways we think we ought. For those reasons, we might consider that humankind would have been better off if we were literally in a fearless nature.
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But that would be a big mistake. For frail and vulnerable creatures like ourselves, a disposition to feel fear is a vital evolutionary addition, as it prompts us to take care of ourselves in situations of danger. Those who feared nothing would dare anything, and the consequences would all too often be disastrous. . Fear, it is true, sometimes applies the brakes too sharply to our efforts, but it is better to possess brakes that are occasionally over-effective than to have no brakes at all.
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We sometimes describe a “fearless” person who has “shown guts” when in a tight spot, but usually we don’t mean that the person was literally fearless but instead that she acted as if she were fearless by forbidding her fears to hold her back from doing what she judged she should. Strictly speaking, in such cases it is not the fear that is absent but its effects.
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While the psychology of courage is complex and multiform, there is unity in courage being manifested in situations of danger and difficulty where feelings of fear, discouragement or lack of confidence would be natural. But simply saying that someone has or lacks courage rarely tells us all we want to know.
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