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Rooting for the Anti-Hero

Young Heretics

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The Difference Between Fearlessness and Courage

Plato makes a distinction between fearlessness and courage. He says you can be a phobos, but to be undrayous to be courageous is another thing altogether. But it might be that the distinction is not as clear-cut as we would like it to be,. It's Plato who identifies the thumos with a lion and the lion part of the soul. The dialogue ends in aporilla, in a state of kind of perplexity, not really knowing where to go next.

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