Physical Courage When many of us hear the word courage, we immediately think of physical courage – facing a physically dangerous or threatening situation. Valour is even defined as “great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle”1 (the emphasis is mine). In Part 1 I provided several examples of physical courage. Lord Slim refers to this type of courage as “an emotional state.” The US Union General William T Sherman defined physical courage as “a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.” 2 Plato would have agreed, “The courage of the warrior…
