Courage Measure

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A Courage Measure is an ability measure for a cognitive agent to take courageous acts.



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.

200 Bc

  • Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics.
    • … First, in feelings of fear and confidence the mean is bravery (andreia). The excessively fearless person is nameless … while the one who is excessively confident is rash; the one who is excessively afraid and deficient in confidence is cowardly.