Courage Measure
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A Courage Measure is an ability measure for a cognitive agent to take courageous acts.
- AKA: Bravery.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Fear, Pain, Risk, Uncertainty, Intimidation, Shame, Scandal.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/courage Retrieved:2014-7-7.
- Courage is the ability and willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Physical courage is courage in the face of physical pain, hardship, death, or threat of death, while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal, or discouragement.
In some traditions, fortitude holds approximately the same meaning as courage. In the Western tradition, notable thoughts on courage have come from philosophers such as Aristotle, Aquinas and Kierkegaard; in the Eastern tradition, some thoughts on courage were offered by the Tao Te Ching. More recently, courage has been explored by the discipline of psychology.
- Courage is the ability and willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Physical courage is courage in the face of physical pain, hardship, death, or threat of death, while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal, or discouragement.