Abstract
This article discusses Confucius’s view of courage in comparison with Aristotle’s and Neo-Confucians’. It proposes the following arguments: (i) Confucius’s conception of courage is much broader than Aristotle’s, since it does not confine courage to the category of martial virtue and moral excellence that presupposes a noble motive; (ii) both Confucius’s and Aristotle’s conceptions of courage hold that courage is concerned with the fear of external threats but not the strength in self-improvement as Neo-Confucians have proposed; and (iii) Confucius’s conception of courage is more relevant and significant than Aristotle’s and Neo-Confucians’ to contemporary life.
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