Got Courage? Aristotle’s’ Doctrine of the Mean states that there are three kinds of dispositions, two of them vices, involving excess and deficiency and one virtue which is the intermediate or mean. Aristotle considers the act of courage to be a mean concerning fear and confidence. With the deficiency of courage being cowardice and the excess being rashness. In his Nicomachean Ethics, he goes into detail about what courage is and what qualifies a …showed first 75 words of 1134 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1134 total…a courageous and noble death a person can obtain in the mind of Aristotle. In conclusion, I believe Aristotle was a man of principles and he stood firmly about the things he believed in, in this essay it being courage. I do not always agree with what he considers courageous and what is cowardice. However, I do respect his views and take away from this a better and different understanding of some of those principles.