{"id":9033,"date":"2013-01-27T04:42:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T04:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/27\/courage-and-fearlessness\/"},"modified":"2013-01-27T04:42:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T04:42:17","slug":"courage-and-fearlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/27\/courage-and-fearlessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage and Fearlessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Courage is not fearlessness.&#0160; The courageous feel fear, but master it, unlike the cowardly who are mastered by it.&#0160; To feel no fear in any of life&#39;s situations is to fail to perceive real dangers.&#0160; The fearless are foolish.&#0160; It is therefore inept to praise the courageous as fearless: their virtue, which one presumably intends to praise, consists in the mastery of&#0160; precisely that the absence of which would render them foolish.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courage is not fearlessness.&#0160; The courageous feel fear, but master it, unlike the cowardly who are mastered by it.&#0160; To feel no fear in any of life&#39;s situations is to fail to perceive real dangers.&#0160; The fearless are foolish.&#0160; It is therefore inept to praise the courageous as fearless: their virtue, which one presumably intends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/27\/courage-and-fearlessness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Courage and Fearlessness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}