The Virtue of Courage

The contributors to this volume offer new insights on 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 what place courage has in healthcare or contemporary career development, and how courage might be applied by ordinary citizens as well as by leaders in contemporary liberal democracies. 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.