Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
What is the proper end of courage?
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Since Aristotle has already said that all moral actions are done for the sake of some end. Thus, courage has as its end honor or nobility, whereas the vices of cowardliness and rashness have fear and anger as their ends, respectively.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book III