There are many different philosophical ideas about what courage really is. This video is a short essay about how different philosophies define the virtue of courage.

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Thermopylae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae#/media/File:Scene_of_the_Battle_of_the_Thermopylae.jpg
Hector & Achilles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles#/media/File:Peter_Paul_Rubens_003.jpg
Marcus Aurelius (1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism#/media/File:L'Image_et_le_Pouvoir_-_Buste_cuirass%C3%A9_de_Marc_Aur%C3%A8le_ag%C3%A9_-_3.jpg
Marcus Aurelius (2): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#/media/File:Marcus_Aurelius_bust_Istanbul_Archaeological_Museum_-_inv._5129_T.jpg
Marcus Aurelius (3): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius#/media/File:Young_Marcus_Aurelius_Musei_Capitolini_MC279.jpg
Diogenes (1): https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_van_Sinope#/media/Bestand:Waterhouse-Diogenes.jpg
Diogenes (2): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_-_Diogenes_-_Walters_37131.jpg
Diogenes (3): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Diog%C3%A8ne_et_Rabelais%2C_Prologue_du_Tiers_Livre.jpg
Epictetus: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Epicteti_Enchiridion_Latinis_versibus_adumbratum_%28Oxford_1715%29_frontispiece.jpg
Seneca: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/0_Portrait_de_S%C3%A9n%C3%A8que_d%27apr%C3%A8s_l%27antique_-_Lucas_Vorsterman.JPG
Battle Greeks: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Handbook_of_archaeology%2C_Egyptian_-_Greek_-_Etruscan_-_Roman_%281867%29_%2814781141522%29.jpg/1920px-Handbook_of_archaeology%2C_Egyptian_-_Greek_-_Etruscan_-_Roman_%281867%29_%2814781141522%29.jpg
Nietzsche (1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche#/media/File:Nietzsche187a.jpg
Nietzsche (2): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche#/media/File:Nietzsche1882.jpg
Nietzsche (3): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche#/media/File:Friederich_Nietzsche.jpg
Nietzsche (4): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche#/media/File:Nietzsche187c.jpg
Camus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#/media/File:Albert_Camus2.jpg
Samsara: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Bhavacakra.jpg
Buddha (1): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Buddha_images_at_Wat_Bowonniwet.jpg/800px-Buddha_images_at_Wat_Bowonniwet.jpg
Buddha (2): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Buddha_meditating%2C_Tokyo_National_Museum%2C_Japan_cropped.jpg
Buddha (3): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Shakyamuni_Buddha_with_Avadana_Legend_Scenes_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Watts: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts#/media/Bestand:Alan_Watts_painted_on_mural.jpg
Samurai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai#/media/File:YoshiClimber.jpg
Crates (1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crates_of_Thebes#/media/File:Crates_and_Hipparchia_Villa_Farnesina.jpg
Crates (2): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crates_of_Thebes#/media/File:Pavimento_di_siena,_allegoria_del_colle_della_sapienza_(pinturicchio)_03_cratete.jpg
Zeno (1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno_of_Citium#/media/File:Paolo_Monti_-_Servizio_fotografico_(Napoli,_1969)_-_BEIC_6353768.jpg
Zeno (2): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Zeno_of_Citium_in_Thomas_Stanley_History_of_Philosophy.jpg
Alexander (1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great#/media/File:Alexander_cuts_the_Gordian_Knot.jpg
Alexander (2): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great#/media/File:Alexander_Sarcophagus_Battle_of_Issus.jpg

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