The Everyday Virtue of Courage

In this short excerpt written by the Christian Ethicist Stanley Hauerwas to his godson, he pontificates on the topic of courage:

Usually courage is identified with dramatic and heroic acts. Though I certainly don’t think it’s a mistake that many associate courage with heroism, I want to propose to you that courage is an everyday virtue. The courageous usually don’t think of themselves as intentionally heroic. That’s because courage has been such an integral part of their lives that they seldom think they should “try” to be courageous.

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