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Courageous acts or courageous actors?
Personality and Individual Differences, 1980Abstract The title question was addressed by relating psychometric, psychiatric and field-performance measures obtained from a group of military bomb-disposal operators. The outstandingly successful operators in this highly competent group of soldiers were found to have some distinctive features.
R.S. Hallam, S.J. Rachman
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2021
Abstract This chapter examines intellectual courage, the virtue needed to persist in pursuit of our intellectual aims despite threats. It notes that courage is commonly exercised not just in our efforts to gain knowledge, but also in our efforts to keep and share it.
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Abstract This chapter examines intellectual courage, the virtue needed to persist in pursuit of our intellectual aims despite threats. It notes that courage is commonly exercised not just in our efforts to gain knowledge, but also in our efforts to keep and share it.
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Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
AbstractThis article presents two theories of social change, developed by Ernesto Laclau and Alain Badiou. Laclau offers a theory of how political movements come to acquire wide acceptance. Badiou, by drawing conceptual resources from his elaborate ontological system, theorizes politics as a process by which something genuinely new comes to be in ...
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AbstractThis article presents two theories of social change, developed by Ernesto Laclau and Alain Badiou. Laclau offers a theory of how political movements come to acquire wide acceptance. Badiou, by drawing conceptual resources from his elaborate ontological system, theorizes politics as a process by which something genuinely new comes to be in ...
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2020
Abstract This chapter attempts to demarcate and specify the virtue of courage. The author begins by providing an explication of what she takes to be aspects of the human condition: relatedness and fallibility. The author then suggests a reconceptualized framework for courage, given the constraints of human nature. She argues that courage
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Abstract This chapter attempts to demarcate and specify the virtue of courage. The author begins by providing an explication of what she takes to be aspects of the human condition: relatedness and fallibility. The author then suggests a reconceptualized framework for courage, given the constraints of human nature. She argues that courage
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