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But the courageous man is proof against fear so far as
man may be. Hence although he will sometimes fear even terrors not beyond man's endurance,
he will do so in the right way, and he will endure them as principle dictates, for the
sake of what is noble1; for that is the
end at which virtue aims.
1 i.e., the rightness and fineness of the act itself, cf. 7.13; 8.5,14; 9.4; and see note on 1.3.2. This amplification of the conception of virtue as aiming at the mean here appears for the first time: we now have the final as well as the formal cause of virtuous action.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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