Week 7- Moral Courage Flashcards
Courage is Derived from the Latin word
cor” meaning heart. It is implied that the heart is the seat of one’s feelings.
-It also means “doing the right thing even at the risk of inconvenience, ridicule, punishment, loss of job or security or socialstatus,etc.also requires that we rise above the apathy, complacency, hatred, cynicism, fear-mongering in our political system, socioeconomics division, and cultural/religious differences. also, it’s a commitment to standing up for and acting upon one’s ethical beliefs (Miller,2005)
It is also defined as the ability to do something that one is fearful of. This suggests that courage is “to speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” speaking from one’s heart is ordinary courage. Courage is usually associated with heroic deeds but heroes are not the only ones with courage. For example a working student, a person battling cancer, and a single mother raising her children on her courage.
According to _________ “courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.
Nelson Mandela
According to _________ “courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.
Nelson Mandela
according also to
____________ recognized that “patience and perseverance are virtues related to courage.”
St. Thomas
according also to
____________ recognized that “patience and perseverance are virtues related to courage.”
St. Thomas
is to speak one’s mind by telling one’s heart. It had nothing to do with heroics, but the ordinary courage of expressing one’s mind by connecting it to our heart. Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost the meaning of courage and the connection between our heads, hearts, and actions.
Ordinary Courage
demands us to judge what behaviors or acts support our ethical ideologies or highest ideals, and which ones are destructive. and the individual’s capacity to overcome fear and stand up for his or her core values and ethical obligations.
Moral Courage
demands us to judge what behaviors or acts support our ethical ideologies or highest ideals, and which ones are destructive. and the individual’s capacity to overcome fear and stand up for his or her core values and ethical obligations.
Moral Courage
Greek philosophers _____________ regarded courage as one of the most desirable human character traits. Both philosophers wrote about courage as virtue, a marker of moral excellence. More specifically, it was the virtue that moderated our instinct toward recklessness on one hand and cowardice on the other hand.
Plato and Aristotle
For _________, courage is related to that element of the soul called “__________” (the spirited, courageous element) - the part of the soul in which courage resides and in which courage perfects.
-plato
-thymos
In _______________ courage is defined as a means with respect to things that inspire confidence or fear, further, it chooses or endures things because it is noble to do so. Though courage is concerned with confidence and fear, it is not concerned with both alike, but more with the things that inspire fear.
___________ thinks that the highest types of courage are those who either die in battle or successfully overcome the enemy, that’s why we must publicly honor them.
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics,
-Aristotle
defined virtue as a purposive disposition, lying in a mean and being determined by the right reason
Aristotle
_____________ that performvirtuousacts are motivated,at least partially, by good desires without internal conflict and;
virtuous people
__________ must overcome baddesires in order to perform the same virtuous acts.
Continent people
Is the theological virtue by which an individual believes in the divine and in all that a higher being has said and revealed to humankind. And is a total bond with the divine.
And it is firm and certain knowledge of God’s benevolence towards us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit
Faith
-(Calvin, 2000)
