Mr. Taylor wrote that Judge White's "conclusion was plausible, debatable, highly unpopular (especially among police) and (for that reason) courageous.
Without knocking the absolute value of a free and courageous press, there is reason to wonder if fact-checking the President will ever be as useful as we think it should be.
That there must be a third, a 'spirited' or courageous part, different from reason and desire, is more difficult to prove.
The reason is that one courageous person: Edward Snowden.
While virtue is the dominant factor in happiness, we still cannot tell whether for Plato one can have a reason for being, e.g., courageous that does not depend directly on happiness.
"Josh Bell is a hugely gifted and gracious and courageous man, and he is the reason I am standing here today.
The opportunity to become an entrepreneur and to build your own company will create new reasons for today's more courageous and adventurous young scientists to enjoy both science and life.
In any case, Aristotle's assertion that his audience must already have begun to cultivate the virtues need not be taken to mean that no reasons can be found for being courageous, just, and generous.
On reflection, however, the courageous Margolis reached the right result for the wrong reason.
Can I engage in "courageous" acts in the right circumstances, for the right reasons, and so on, and still do them "as one does"—that is, without drawing these behaviors back to my first-person choice of myself in the world, a commitment to being a courageous person?
