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en-wikipedia-org-2837		Courage - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6626	896	69	Using a text from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as the basis for his article, he discusses the relationship between fear and confidence in the emotion of courage.[3] Fear & Confidence in Relation to Courage[edit] The ideal is to judge a situation, accept the emotion as part of human nature and, we hope, use well-developed habits to confront the fear and allow reason to guide our behavior toward a worthwhile goal.[8] Putman states "if the two emotions are distinct, then excesses or deficiencies in either fear or confidence can distort courage."[9] In medieval virtue ethics, championed by Averroes and Thomas Aquinas and still important to Roman Catholicism, courage is referred to as "Fortitude".[21][22] According to Hobbes courage is a virtue of the individual in order to ensure a better chance of survival while the moral virtues address Hobbes's social contract which civilized men display (in varying degrees) in order to avoid the state of nature.[35] Hobbes also uses the idea of fortitude as an idea of virtue.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2837.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2837.txt