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2022-05-06 23:50:48 COURAGE: In The Aristotelian Conception

Aristotle believed that courage was concerned with fear, and that while there were many things to fear in life, death was the most fearful thing of all.

In his Nicomachean Ethics,   the brave  man is a man who, “is fearless in the faceof a noble death, and all of the emergencies that       involve death; and the emergencies of war are in the highest degree of this kind."

He also made the point that men who are forced to fight are less courageous than those who demonstrate courage in battle of their own free will.      

Aristotle  framed  courage as a moral virtue, as a will to noble action. 

He questioned  the courage of those who are confident due to success in battle, though I wonder how such success can be earned, except through some initial show of courage.      

While it is true that the chests of strong and experienced men often swell 
when threats are minor, and such men have been known to back down in the
face of a legitimate challenge, a certain 
amount of courage is the product of a successful track record.

Is a man who has
never won a fight more courage
us for taking on an experienced fighter
—no matter how noble the cause— or is he simply a fool? Aristotle’s mean of courage is not the wild, “rash” confidence of a passionate man who fights in the heat of the moment out of fear or anger.      

Rather, he suggests that “brave men act for honor’s sake, but passion aids them.” 

He does allow that men who act from strength of feeling
possess “something akin to courage.”   

Aristotle’s formulation of courage, while admirable, is so conditional and lashed  to a slippery, high-minded ideal of noble action that trying to determin
who is truly courageous becomes a bit of a game.

Andreia, the word Aristotle used for courage, was also synonymous with manliness in ancient Greece. Andreia is derived from “andros,” which connotes “male” or “masculine.” In his book Roman Manliness, classicist Myles McDowell argued that the word virtus, which “struck the ear of an ancient Roman much as ‘manliness’ does that of an English speaker,” meant courage—specifically in battle—in pre-Classical Latin. The word vir meant “man,” and the virtus meant courage. McDonnell wrote:

“In military contexts virtus can denote the kind of courage required to defend the homeland, but more often it designates aggressive conduct in battle. In non-military situations courageous virtus usually refers to the capacity to face and endure pain and death.

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2022-05-06 23:18:10 Strength, courage, mastery and honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men because without them, no "higher" virtue can be entertained. You have to be alive to philosophize. You can augment these virtues and you can create rules and moral codes to govern them, but if you remove them completely from the equation, you are not only leaving behind the virtues that are specific to men, you are abandoning the virtues that make civilization. possible.

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Força, coragem, maestria e honra são as virtudes alfa dos homens em todo o mundo. Eles são as virtudes fundamentais dos homens porque sem eles, nenhuma virtude “superior” pode ser entretida. Você precisa estar vivo para filosofar. Você pode aumentar essas virtudes e pode criar regras e códigos morais para governá-los, mas se removê-los completamente da equação, você não está apenas deixando para trás as virtudes que são específicas dos homens, você está abandonando as virtudes que fazem a civilização possível. Aberto / Como

2022-04-26 00:14:32 Heraclitus condensed it into the terser dictum “strife is the parent of things.”
Even Solomon (the hoary old kingling) chanted it in characteristic Oriental strophes: “Love is stronger than death, the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the flood drown it -- jealousy is as cruel as the grave.”

Fighting is the method whereby the most fitted to propagate conclusively prove the fact.

Animals, plants, birds, reptiles, and fishes, all exist in surroundings of unending sex-rivalry and warfare -- so do men.
Organic life is one ceaseless round of Love and War.

Sexualism and slaughter go hand in hand.

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2022-04-26 00:13:36 LOVE AND WOMEN AND WAR

The best fighters are the best race-producers. This is the verdict of Biology and the instinctive belief of the whole Feminine world in general. In the moulding of Organic Nature into all its diverse forms, Love and War (with their attendant penalties and correlated consequences) are the two most potent factors. Battle is the furnace-alembic that has been consciously provided for chemically separating the animate Refuse from the Gold. Sexual desire is the amalgam that thereafter unites the golden particles, perpetuating for the ages and ages the selected qualities -- of physical beauty, vigor, bravery, endurance -- or vice-versa.

“I am convinced,” writes Darwin, “that natural selection has been the main, but not the exclusive, means of modification.”

The same thought has been gemmed in a more sentimental but equally suggestive setting, by Dryden:

-- “ Happy, happy happy pair, None but the brave,
None but the brave,
None but the brave deserve the fair.”

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2022-04-25 23:35:29 The spirits of the fallen heroes would add their forces to the phalanx of those who assist the ‘celestial heroes’ in fighting in the ragnarökk, that is to say, the fate of the ‘darkening of the divine’, which, according to these teachings, and also according to the Hellenes (Hesiod), has threatened the world since time immemorial.

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2022-04-25 23:35:28 The expression mors triumphalis in our own Classical tradition corresponds to this concept. As for the properly Nordic tradition, well-known to all is the part which concerns Valhalla, the seat of celestial immortality, reserved for the ‘free’ divine stock and the heroes fallen on the battlefield (‘Valhalla’ means literally ‘from the palace of the chosen’).

The Lord of this symbolic seat, Odin or Wotan, appears in the Ynglingasaga as the one who, by his symbolic self-sacrifice on the ‘world tree’, showed the heroes how to reach the divine sojourn, where they live eternally as on a bright peak, which remains in perpetual sunlight, above every cloud. According to this tradition, no sacrifice or form of worship was more appreciated by the supreme God, and rich in supra-mundane fruits, than that which is performed by the warrior who fights and falls on the battlefield. But this is not all.

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2022-04-25 19:06:43 WhitePill
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2022-04-23 19:10:01 Happy Saint George Day for every English member.

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