Lord Moran, The anatomy of courage, with a foreword by Denis Williams, London, Keynes Press (British Medical Association), 1984, 8vo, pp. xxix, 159, £35.00.

Abstract

'cowardly' is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue) whatever may be said of the perpetrators of last Tuesday's slaughter they were not cowards." George Ochoa, in a letter to the New Yorker two weeks later, took a different view and cited Aristotle's analysis of courage in support of it: "Aristotle made the case that a courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason dictates 'for the sake of what is noble.' If Susan Sontag thinks that the terrorists acted for the sake of what is noble and followed a reasonable course of action to achieve that