Courage
courage|courage The courage indicates the capacity to endure without being lacking, for example courage is to face its fears. It is included/understood like Vertu, of that which faces the Danger or supports the Douleur.
With the Japan, courage (勇 - Yu in Japanese) is one of the basic concepts of the Bushido. Inazo Nitobe gives this description of it:
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courage, if it were not put at the service of justice, was hardly worthy to be regarded as a virtue. Confucius in its Talks, defines it as in its practice, by what it is not. “To include/understand what is right”, says it, “and not to do it, the absence of courage shows”. This maxim included in a positive direction can be read as follows: “Courage consists in making what is right”. To risk themselves with all the chances, to expose themselves, launch out with impunity in the arms of death, pass for marks of value, and in soldiering, such a temerity, that Shakespeare calls: “the illegitimate sister of the value”, is wrongfully applauded. It however does not go from there thus in the precepts of the Chevalerie. To die for a cause which is not worth any the sorrow is “a death of dog”. “ to precipitate in the middle of a battle and to fall to the fields from honor, known as a prince of the Clan Mito, is rather easy and does not exceed the means of simplest louts. But true courage is of living when it is necessary to live, and to die only when it is necessary to die ”. And he did not know even the name of Plato which had defined courage as “the knowledge of what the man must fear and of what he should not fear”. A distinction often made in Occident between the physical courage and the moral courage is on our premises old and close friend obviousness. Which young person Samurai never heard of the difference between “great bravery” and “bravery of the robber”?
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