While reading about the five types of non-courage, I thought about the implement of military draft and what category soldiers under this command would fall into. But, I began to think that drafted soldiers do not fall into any particular one of these necessarily (although in a way it could fall in with the condition that comes from citizenship).They could likely fit into the group of those who are at sea or have diseases (1115a 30) because they like the sailors or disease-ridden, they realize that the situation of war is out of their own control and therefore must make the most of it. Despite the war examples Aristotle uses to better articulate the non-courage forms, I think the issue of drafting is not addressed by experience, spiritedness, hope, or ignorance.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Forms of Non-Courage and Military Draft
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