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    It is not the case that Daring and boldness are not identical with the virtue of courage.

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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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    • 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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