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Moral Courage

Moral courage requires acting on one's principles despite doubts or risks. It involves moral imagination - envisioning potential outcomes to determine the most helpful action. Moral imagination allows considering possibilities beyond immediate circumstances. Willpower allows acting on carefully deliberated decisions despite temptation. Aristotle defined will as the mental capacity to initiate action after resolving to follow one's intellect. Developing willpower means putting rational choices into consistent action through self-mastery.

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Moral Courage

Moral courage requires acting on one's principles despite doubts or risks. It involves moral imagination - envisioning potential outcomes to determine the most helpful action. Moral imagination allows considering possibilities beyond immediate circumstances. Willpower allows acting on carefully deliberated decisions despite temptation. Aristotle defined will as the mental capacity to initiate action after resolving to follow one's intellect. Developing willpower means putting rational choices into consistent action through self-mastery.

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Moral Courage

Moral Courage
Moral courage is the courage to put your moral
principles into action even though you may be in doubt,
afraid, or face adverse consequences.
Moral Courage
According to Mark Johnson “acting morally often requires more
than just strength of character” (Drumwright and Murphy, 2004)

He also stated that it is important to have “an ability to imaginatively


discern various possibilities for acting within a given situation to
envision the potential help and harm that are likely to result from a
given action (Johnson, 1994).” This ability is called moral
imagination.
Moral Imagination
Is an “ability in particular circumstances to discover
and evaluate possibilities not merely determined by that
circumstance, or limited by its operative mental mode
or merely framed by a set of rules or rule-governed
concerns (Werhane, 1999).”
How can one practice
moral courage?
What is “will”?
Generally, “will” is the mental capacity to act decisively on one’s
desire. It is the faculty of the mind to initiate action after coming to a
resolution following careful deliberation (Joachim, 1952).

Aristotle said: “The soul in living creatures is distinguished by two


functions, the judging capacity which is a function of the intellect and
of sensation combined, and the capacity for exciting movement in
space.” (Hett, 1964)
Why is the “will” as important as
reason?
For example: Riza is torn between buying a new smart phone or save
up for a trip outside the country.
On one hand, she can afford the On the other hand, she would be
smart phone now. nowhere near her target travel date
because her savings is still far from
enough.

Riza weighed the pros and cons between buying a new phone and
saving up for her trip.
Eventually, she decided to walk away from the store and
go to the bank to deposit her money. It was Riza’s will”
that enabled her to walk out of the store without buying
the phone she liked.
Developing the “will”
Aristotle discussed the difference between what people decide to do and what
they actually do.

In Aristotle’s philosophy, using the intellect to decide is just one part of the
moral decision. The resolve to put the decision into action is the role of the
“will”.

Self-mastery therefore is the product of the “will” that is achieved by actually


putting rational, moral choice into action.

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