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    Supports→Daring and boldness are not identical with the virtue of courage.

    Courage requires commitment to good ends, not merely mastery of fear.

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    Daring and boldness are not identical with the virtue of courage.Daring and boldness may exist in the absence of any commitment to goodness.

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    She believes this implies that courage is more than a simple mastery of fear; instead, it is mastery of fear in the context of the pursuit of good ends. Therefore, courage overlaps with daring and boldness, but since the latter conditions may exist in the absence of any commitment to goodness, they are not identical with the virtue of courage. We may say, instead, that the mastery of fear is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the possession of courage.

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