Analysis Of Aristotle's Virtue Of Courage

“So too, we become courageous by doing things that are courageous.” (Sachs, 22) Courage is vague, it has continuously changing means, and is unique to each experience and individual. Courage is a mean (where your aim at happiness lies) between two different vices, one of excess and one involving deficiency. Each situation is unique to a certain feeling and depending on that situation a person may exhibit an excess feeling or in other instances may not require as much of a feeling. The right amount is what Aristotle explains as the mean, which is proportioned to the importance of the circumstance or situation. Aristotle says that a courageous person is one that delves into all aspects of fear, deems it as whether or not it is worth facing, …show more content…
Aristotle’s philosophical virtue of courage is the rational part of the soul. In order for a person to endure the aspects of self- knowledge or the art of living, one must go back to the basics of Aristotle’s rationality principle and oversee their desires and impulses. All of the desires and impulses that we encounter on a daily basis are blocking the access to our eudaimonia. All human beings want happiness, yet within today’s society we focus so much on money, technology, careers, and things that abstract our attention away from human flourishing and we forget about taking care of our soul. The ability to talk to yourself, by yourself, for yourself enables you to gain knowledge and insight of who you are as an individual. Aristotle lays down the foundation through teaching, experience, and time, yet he puts it up to the reader to implement his teaching. He gives us the tools that lead us to becoming a more virtuous individual. While practicing his teachings, one becomes more connected to their own awareness and consciousness. I see self-knowledge and self-care as inputting what you have gathered from a source or teacher into your mind. Once this is in your mind you scan this information based on your past experiences and own perceptions, understand your deficiencies, fix then, and then that yields a more virtuous output, a more virtuous you. The ancient philosophical teachings of a virtuous life is the modern day Licensed Professional Counselor’s or Psychologist. Each one cognitively challenges you as a person to flourish as a human being and take care of yourself to reach a state of eudaimonia and a complete life. This helps you to master the art of organizing the