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    Daring and boldness are not identical with the virtue of ... — Carmelics
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    Daring and boldness are not identical with the virtue of courage.

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    • 1.Daring and boldness may exist in the absence of any commitment to goodness.
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    • 2.Courage requires commitment to good ends, not merely mastery of fear.
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    • 1.Foot's supporting argument conflates the conditions for *virtuous* courage with the conditions for courage as such, a distinction Urmson and Geach both mark.
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    • 2.A soldier who charges without good ends may still exemplify courage as a natural excellence, even if the act lacks full moral worth.
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    • 3.Collapsing the distinction between a virtue's defining structure and its moral appraisal smuggles normative requirements into what should be a descriptive account of the disposition.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account in NE III.6-9 treats courage primarily as the mean between cowardice and recklessness, defined by appropriate fear responses, not end-directedness.
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    • 2.If the canonical Aristotelian definition centers on emotional disposition rather than moral motivation, daring calibrated to real danger functionally constitutes courage.
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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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