The virtue of courage /
"The contributors to this volume offer new insights on the Aristotelian perspectives of courage, as well as Stoic, Confucian, Christian or Thomist, Jewish, and African perspectives of the virtue. They offer important observations about the communal, ethnic, and religious elements of courage. Th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Virtues (Oxford University Press)
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| Summary: | "The contributors to this volume offer new insights on the Aristotelian perspectives of courage, as well as Stoic, Confucian, Christian or Thomist, Jewish, and African perspectives of the virtue. They offer important observations about the communal, ethnic, and religious elements of courage. They ask questions as broad as how courage might be applied by ordinary citizens as well as by leaders in contemporary liberal democracies and as focused as what place courage has in healthcare or contemporary career development. These essays make it clear that reflections on courage are highly salient in a world that is experiencing global political unrest and profound uncertainty about the future"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxxii, 327 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197660010 0197660010 9780197660027 0197660029 |