What is courage? Courage is characterized by character qualities - Gentleness, Mercy, Generosity

Courage is one of the strong-willed and moral qualities, including self-control, courage, patience, perseverance and the ability to dare.

In ancient times, courage was considered one of the four main, fundamental virtues.

This trait meant not only a gallant character, but also the ability to control oneself in difficult situations.

Types of courage and their characteristics

Courageous does not mean completely fearless: only a fool is not afraid of anything.

A strong-willed person must be endowed with wisdom, peace of mind, rational forethought and dignity. Moral strength helps an individual overcome the worst fear and begin to act in spite of it.

The forms in which courage is manifested come in many different forms:

1. Willingness to counteract external enemy forces, the desire to fight the enemy, regardless of his numerical superiority and strength.

2. You can endure pain, suffering, loss, poverty, and illness courageously (that is, steadfastly, patiently).

3. The Church considers courage an important component of faith.

4. The ability to renounce one's interests for the benefit of many. A person caring for a disabled relative has undoubted courage.

5. It takes a certain amount of courage for children to endure humiliation and mean jokes at school. For adults - to cope with the hostility of the environment.

A courageous person will not panic in a dangerous and scary situation: instead of screaming and wringing his hands, he will think and act soberly.

A Story of Courage: From Honor to Self-Sacrifice

At all times, courage as a virtue has been closely associated with the class of guards, warriors and knights. A clear parallel was drawn between this trait and the concepts of honor, dignity, fortitude and moral strength.

Of course, the heroic quality was inherent only to the stronger sex and was repeatedly demonstrated (read: defended) in tournaments, competitions and fights.

American orator and military man Robert Ingersoll believed that the most severe test of courage was defeat.

If a person, after falling to the bottom and experiencing the most severe humiliation, does not lose his dignity, he can rightfully be considered courageous.

Aristotle argued that courage is expressed in the willingness to risk one's life (and even voluntarily give it up) to do good. At the same time, the hero should not be afraid of death and must believe in the power of virtue.

It was from the ancient Greek philosopher that the association of masculinity with valiant behavior during battle and exclusively with the stronger sex began.

Modern knights: men and women

Nietzsche believed that in modern times, when industrial values took over society, and aristocratic impulses faded into the background.

The understanding of courage has “turned pale”, its significance has been leveled. Moral fortitude has become optional for most citizens.

Some philosophers even began to consider this quality unnecessary and “harmful to life”: after all, the fear of death is the best way to promote the search for compromises with enemy countries and, ultimately, leads to a truce.

But Nietzsche hoped to the last that over time the ethical meaning of courage would be revived.

Today, despite the “brutal” root of the word, a lady can also be considered courageous, and philologists do not note any linguistic contradictions.

And there is no need: just remember what strength of character nurses and hospital employees had during the war. With what selfless diligence they nursed the wounded and pulled them out from under fire.

Imagine with what courage the wives left after their husbands, who were disliked by the state, were exiled to Siberia. With what pride and honor they endured the hardships of wartime, hunger and poverty.

Perhaps for the modern world this is a demonstration of courage in its original, virtuous sense?

Courageous people are the very definition of the heroes of our today's selection. They lived and almost died in circumstances that we are afraid to even think about. They fought wars, danced with death, performed acts of miraculous heroism and lived to tell the tale.

Hugh Glass

In 1823, while hunting game along the banks of the Grand River with his fellow trappers, Glass came face to face with a grizzly bear and her cubs. Finding himself without his rifle at hand, he could not stop the bear from almost tearing him to pieces. She left deep lacerations on his face, chest, arms and back. Surprisingly, Glass was able to scare her off with just a hunting knife. Unfortunately, they were in hostile Indian territory, and Glass was so wounded that his fellow hunters had no choice but to cover his dying body and leave him behind. But Glass didn't die. He regained consciousness, set his broken leg, wrapped himself in a bear skin and crawled along the river bank. Glass had his own hiccups. At one point, he had to collect maggots from a rotting log so they would eat the dead flesh on his leg to avoid gangrene. He had to kill and eat snakes in order to support himself. However, six weeks later (six weeks!) he reached civilization, alive and in good health.

Simo Hayha

He was nicknamed "The White Death". Simo was a Finnish sniper who essentially made life hell for Soviet soldiers during World War II. During the Finnish-Soviet War of 1939-40, Simo helped fight off Soviet invaders the only way he knew how, by shooting at them from a distance. In just 100 days, Simo committed 505 murders, all of which were confirmed. The Russians, being confused, sent snipers to counterattack and fired artillery at Simo, but they were unable to stop him. Eventually, a Russian soldier shot Simo in the face. When they found him, Simo was in a coma and half of his cheek was missing, but he refused to die. He came to his senses and began to live a full life, raising dogs and hunting moose. When asked how he learned to shoot so well, Simo said what is the most underrated thing in human history: “practice.”

Samuel Whittemore

Whittemore was a true patriot, and like many others, he gladly fought for his freedom against the British during the American Revolutionary War. The only difference between the other men and Samuel was that Whittemore was 78 years old at the time. Previously, Whittemore served as a private in King George's War and assisted in the capture of Fort Louisburg in 1745. Some believe he also fought in the French and Indian War when he was 64 years old. He also single-handedly killed three British soldiers in his fields with a rifle and his dueling pistol. For his efforts, he was shot in the face, bayoneted, and left for dead. He refused to die, and in fact, made a full recovery and lived until the ripe old age of 98, when apparently God decided he didn't want to see a 150-year-old man fight in the Civil War.

"Mad Jack" Churchill

John Churchill had a motto, and that in itself is pretty cool because who has their own motto these days? In any case, Churchill said: “Any officer who begins a battle without his sword is incorrectly dressed.” And “Mad Jack” backed up his words with deeds. While less brave men used guns, "Mad Jack" used a bow and arrow and a sword to kill Nazis. That's right, he believed that firearms were invented for cowards. "Mad Jack" is the only soldier in World War II to kill enemies with a bow and arrow. Consider the fact that this guy took his bagpipes into battle, and one day led a troop into an enemy position, playing on it, moreover, he was the only one who survived this battle! He also infiltrated Sicily and captured 42 soldiers and a mortar crew. While most wanted the war to end, Churchill did not, saying: “If it weren’t for those damned Yankees, we could have fought the war for another dozen years.”

Bhanbhagta Gurung

The British awarded Bhanbhagta the Victoria Cross for his efforts in World War II. What did he do that was so special? Well, to begin with, he saved his entire brigade from an enemy sniper by calmly standing up and shooting him while his unit was under siege. He didn't stop there, he rushed into the enemy trench to blow up the enemy with a grenade (without orders, and alone), then he jumped into the next trench (where, we assume, two Japanese soldiers were completely bewildered) and bayoneted them to of death. Inspired by his success, he cleared two more trenches, killing enemies with grenades and bayonets. Oh yes, we forgot to mention that all this happened under machine gun fire, which rained down on him and his comrades from the machine gun bunker. Bhanbhagta solved this problem too, he went from the trench to the bunker, jumping onto the roof and throwing a grenade into the bunker. He then flew into the bunker and captured the last Japanese soldier.

Augustina of Aragon

Augustine was on her way to the fort to deliver apples to Spanish soldiers during the Spanish War of Independence when she discovered them retreating amid a French attack. She ran forward and began loading the cannons, shaming the soldiers so much that they must have felt obliged to return to the fight. With her help, they fought off the French. She was eventually captured, but escaped and became the leader of a partisan unit. She even served as a battery commander at the Battle of Vitoria. People called her the Spanish Joan of Arc, and it was a well-deserved honor.

John Fairfax

When he was 9 years old, John Fairfax settled an argument with a gun. He was expelled from the Boy Scouts for shooting at another group with a gun. At age 13, he ran away from home to live like Tarzan in the Amazon jungle. When he was 20 years old, he decided to commit suicide - by being eaten by a jaguar! He took a pistol with him in case he changed his mind, which he did, and he subsequently shot and skinned the animal. He spent three years as a pirate, after attempting to travel by bike and hitchhike throughout South America. He then eventually rowed a boat across the Atlantic Ocean alone and then across the Pacific Ocean in tandem with a friend.

Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto was a sword-wielding, Kensai warrior in Japan during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. He fought his first fight when he was 13 years old. Apparently he enjoyed fighting because he spent his life wandering the countryside and fighting people. By the end of his life, he took part in and won more than 60 fights. He trained at the Yoshioka ryu school and then returned and destroyed it, apparently because he could do it. He once fought in a rather famous duel against Sasaki Kojiro, a famous sword master who used a two-handed sword. This apparently did not intimidate Miyamoto, because he defeated Sasaki using a small wooden staff that he had carved on the way to the fight. Eventually, Miyamoto fell ill and retreated to a cave, where he died. He was found kneeling with a sword in his hands.

Dr. Leonid Rogozov

Dr. Leonid Rogozov was serving in Antarctica in 1961 when he developed peritonitis. The nearest surgeon who could remove the appendix was more than a thousand kilometers away, and a huge snowstorm was about to begin. If the appendix had not been removed soon, he would have died. With no other choice, he decided the best thing to do was remove it himself. Rogozov used a mirror, some novocaine, a scalpel, and two untrained assistants and made his own incision. It took him two hours and an iron will, but the appendectomy was successful. Rogozov was eventually awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor by the Soviet Union, because you have to give something to a guy who cut himself open and removed an organ.

Adrian Carton de Wiart

You may think you're a tough nut to crack, but compared to Adrian Carton di Viart, anyone will look like a puddle of sticky human flesh. Adrian fought in three wars, including the Boer War, World War I, and, of course, World War II. He survived two plane crashes and suffered gunshot wounds to the head, face, stomach, ankles, thighs, legs and ear. He was captured during World War II and managed to escape from a prison camp five times. He eventually succeeded when he dug a tunnel out of the prison and evaded capture for eight days by posing as an Italian peasant. Did we mention that he was 61 years old at the time, didn't speak Italian, was missing one arm, and wore an eye patch? Oh yeah, there's also the story about the doctors who refused to amputate Adrian's fingers, so he did the most logical thing and bit them off. After World War I, di Viarte wrote: "Frankly, I enjoyed the war." Can't be.

Dear Colleagues! Dear People!

No matter what you're doing, take a break for a few minutes. Read the article prepared by Moscow Society of Natural Scientists, about a member of the MOIP, about Dmitry Pavlenko. As a result of the tragedy, this guy lost his arms and legs, but, thanks to his courage, he overcame his illness and began to live life to the fullest. Dmitry, despite the absence of arms and legs, graduated from high school, learned to drive a car, work on a computer, and embroider icons. To do this, he developed his own technique, in which he held the needle with his teeth. He started a family, is raising two children, participates in competitions for the disabled, and organized a public organization - the “Rehabilitation Center”, which helps others just like him.

Dmitry does not have arms or legs, but unlike many of us who have all this, he does not “cry” or complain about his unfortunate fate. The life of this guy is an example for many people, especially those who drink alcohol, drugs and... simply do nothing in this life, burn through what is given by nature, parents, and maybe... God.

I think each of us has friends, acquaintances and just people who would benefit from reading the story of the struggle for life.

Sincerely,
A.P. Sadchikov, professor at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov,
Vice President of MOIP (http://www.moip.msu.ru)

People of the older generation remember well that every young man of that time had a reference book by Boris Polevoy, “The Tale of a Real Man.” I had it too. Many years have passed, but I remember this book, I remember what it looked like, I remember its contents. Although it sounds a little pretentious, she was a guiding light for young people of my generation, including me. There is no need for modern “ideologists” to find fault with my words. Each time, each era has its own guidelines, its own examples to follow. They helped young people find their path in life.

I will briefly talk about this story, because... I’m sure many modern young people don’t even know about its existence. After all, they are brought up by other examples, they have other idols.

Patriotic War. Air battle. The plane was shot down and fell in the forest behind the front line. Pilot Alexey Meresyev was seriously wounded, his legs were broken. A courageous man crawls to the front line. 18 days - without water and food, in frost and cold. Frostbitten legs. Partisans. Hospital. Leg amputation. Life has lost its meaning. Thoughts of leaving this life began to come. Meeting a wonderful person. He revived the pilot’s desire for life and confidence that he could return to duty. An article about a Russian World War I pilot who, after losing his feet, continued to fly. Meresyev began training on prosthetics - running, jumping, dancing. Terrible pain. Medical commission. Meresyev insisted that he be sent to a training regiment. The pilot’s courage allowed him to continue to fly, fight, and beat the enemy.

The literary hero Alexei Meresyev had a prototype pilot Alexey Petrovich Maresyev. Due to severe wounds during World War II, both legs were amputated. However, despite his disability, the pilot returned to the skies, flying with prosthetics. In total, during the war he made 86 combat missions and shot down 11 enemy aircraft: four before being wounded and seven after being wounded. For his courage and courage he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

A.P. Maresyev was a respected man, he lived a long and dignified life, living only two days before his 85th birthday. He educated the younger generation by his example.

The book “The Tale of a Real Man” helped many people find themselves in difficult situations. I can say this about myself too. There were times when I was having a hard time, I would pick up a book and hold it in my hands. There was no point in reading, because... I remembered its contents well. If a person without legs could fly, could live, be useful to society, why can’t I solve my minor problems on my own.

Much later, I came across a book by Dale Carnegie, where the author recommends that people who have lost self-confidence read the back page of the Sunday newspaper, where obituaries are published. He advises you to exchange your problems with those who have died. The dead, in his opinion, would gladly take all the problems of a disappointed person in exchange for further life.

And now a story about another, already modern, courageous and strong man. His story is probably more dramatic than that of the famous pilot. He had arms, legs, and although he had prosthetics, he could still walk. But our hero has neither one nor the other.

This man's name is Dmitry Pavlenko. While in the army, on compulsory service, a tragedy happened. As a result of the explosion of a live grenade, an 18-year-old boy was left without arms and legs. Imagine, a young man whose life was just beginning became a complete invalid, a burden for everyone, and, above all, for himself.

Life is over! This is for many, God forbid, if you find yourself in such a situation. But not for this guy. Despite the severe trauma he suffered, he began to live life to the fullest. This is a perfect example of the struggle for life. Indeed, in his situation, every day of life is a struggle for life itself.

I am writing this for young people and all those who aimlessly waste what is given by God, nature, and parents. They waste their health, their life, which is very short, despite the seemingly long years. Many people don’t know what to do with themselves. Hence alcohol, drugs, suicide, etc. They waste their meaningless lives in bars, nightclubs and just... doing nothing. All this is a tragedy for family and friends, for society, and, first of all, for the person himself. Ultimately, such people become useless to anyone in later life.

I think Dmitry is ready to take on all the problems of humanity, just for one thing, just to play football, walk with a girl arm in arm down the street, pick up a hammer and hammer a nail. Just for the problems of all people!

Dmitry, despite the absence of arms and legs, went to study, graduated from a university, mastered skills that would seem to be incompatible with his physical capabilities - he learned to drive a car, work on a computer, embroider icons. To do this, he developed his own technique, in which he held the needle with his teeth. It was embroidery with teeth that was the activity with which he proved to everyone and to himself something very important.

Dmitry graduated from a higher educational institution - the Moscow Institute of Economics, Politics and Law, Faculty of Psychology. The topic of his thesis is “ Features of psychological rehabilitation of wheelchair users", a topic that is much more relevant than many master's and doctoral dissertations. In it he writes about life, about survival using his own example. How to survive without arms or legs. Isn’t this thesis a continuation of the well-known “Tale of a Real Man”? He wrote his thesis, not realizing that it was a story about human survival in the most extreme conditions. Moreover, it is useful not only for disabled people, but also for healthy people who, for some reason, despair of life or have not found themselves in it.

Dmitry organized " Rehabilitation center of Dmitry Pavlenko» in the Sverdlovsk region. Having gone through a difficult path, he chose his own, no less difficult one - to help those who find themselves in a difficult situation. The motto of the Pavlenko Center is “ Everything depends on you».

The activities of the “Dmitry Pavlenko Rehabilitation Center” are aimed at providing rehabilitation assistance to people who suffered as a result of emergency events - war veterans, family members of those killed in the line of military duty, hostages, victims of terrorism, man-made and natural disasters, disabled people, including disabled children, other citizens who suffered as a result of the injuries suffered. A person, first of all, needs a convincing example of the behavior of another in a similar situation. The presence of a proper name in the name of the organization is a sign of personal, personal responsibility for the work carried out by the Center, for its quality and level. Dmitry maintains the functioning of his page on the “WORLD OF HUMAN” website and maintains correspondence with readers (http://www.mircheloveka.ru/node/5). He shows by his personal example how to get out of a psychological impasse.

In “The Tale of a Real Man” there was a man - a commissar who helped a desperate pilot. Dmitry also had (and still has) such a person. This is Valery Mikhailovich Mikhailovsky, a rehabilitation doctor. Now he is not so much Dmitry’s doctor as a mentor and senior comrade. They were introduced by a wonderful female teacher, Lyudmila Alekseevna Korchagova, who, on her own initiative, visited hospitals where military personnel wounded in Chechnya were treated.

Dmitry receives great moral support from his family - his parents and his wife Olga, who is a certified social work specialist. She knows the problem of rehabilitation not theoretically, she lives it. Dmitry and Olga had a daughter six years ago. And now the family has expanded even more - a little son has appeared. Dmitry and Olga take care of their children with great parental tenderness and love. I think such a friendly family is not afraid of any adversity.

Founder "Dmitry Pavlenko Rehabilitation Center" is an autonomous non-profit organization “Interdisciplinary Institute of Human Rehabilitation named after Professor M.S. Mikhailovsky” (WORLD of Man), headed by V.M. Mikhailovsky. “MIR of Man” established and helped organize several original rehabilitation centers - in Moscow, Moscow region, Krasnoyarsk region, Sverdlovsk region (http://www.mircheloveka.ru/). All established “WORLD OF HUMAN” centers are united by a common rehabilitation strategy developed by Mikhail Semenovich Mikhailovsky, who himself, at the age of 18, lost both legs at the front in 1941, but despite this became a doctor, professor, and president of the Disabled Sports Federation. In his view, rehabilitation is the process of educating a creative, socially useful personality. This rehabilitation strategy unites the “Human WORLD” centers established in several regions of the Russian Federation to provide assistance to people who find themselves in difficult life situations. The son of M.S. Mikhailovsky, Valery Mikhailovich, developed his father’s ideas and made rehabilitation the main work of his life.

It is very difficult for a person who has received physical and psychological trauma to cope with it on their own. He needs the help of a rehabilitation doctor. The main task of a rehabilitation therapist is to help this person survive the trauma and teach him to live in a new way. A rehabilitation doctor must bring a person back to life, make the person want to change his destiny.

Valery Mikhailovich did not just declare ideas for rehabilitation. In 1990, in Zelenograd, he organized a non-governmental Center for the disabled and war veterans called the “School of Rehabilitation,” which provided free assistance to people for seven years. In 1998, this Center was reorganized into the state institution “Rehabilitation Center for Social Adaptation of Disabled Persons and Participants of Military Actions” of the Department of Social Protection of the Population of Moscow. Considering that the framework of a state institution constrained the director’s initiative, V.M. Mikhailovsky organized the “WORLD OF HUMAN” in 2004, uniting people in a voluntary social movement aimed at supporting war veterans, disabled people, family members of fallen servicemen, the development of rehabilitation, the creation in Russia effective rehabilitation service.

Dmitry Pavlenko holds an annual marathon for wheelchair users, and he himself participates in these competitions. He took part in the New York Marathon (photo), in the race on the Borodino field, in marathons in the Sverdlovsk region and other regions of the country. Marathons make it possible to attract public attention to the problems of people with disabilities, as well as to reveal their potential, demonstrate fortitude and desire to be useful to society. Dmitry and his comrades, by personal example, convince people with certain health limitations that the key to success lies in themselves. Rehabilitation consists, first of all, in a personal desire to change the situation, in the willingness to work on oneself, to work, to overcome oneself and one’s adversities.

Dmitry constantly takes part in the Scientific and Practical Conference “Problems of Modern Rehabilitation Science,” which is held annually on May 14 at the Rehabilitation Center in Zelenograd. There he talks about his successes and achievements. In 2013, it was already the 12th such conference. The work of this conference is inextricably linked with the name of Professor Mikhail Semenovich Mikhailovsky, who, in fact, is its main ideological inspirer.

The conferences are preceded by a divine liturgy at the Spaso-Borodinsky Convent, where the tomb of St. Mary of Borodino is located. It was on the Borodino field, thanks to the ascetic activity of Mother Superior Maria (in the world, Margarita Mikhailovna Tuchkova), that the process of rehabilitation of people who lost their loved ones in the War of 1812 began to unfold. At that time there was no idea about post-traumatic stress disorder or rehabilitation centers. But people after the War of 1812 suffered no less than modern veterans and family members of the dead. Margarita Mikhailovna helped everyone who turned to her for help, both with the word of God, and prayer, and human sympathy, and a kind word. She created an almshouse at the monastery, where she provided assistance to disabled participants in the Battle of Borodino.

V.M. Mikhailovsky believes that “the experience of the ascetic activity of Mother Superior Maria is the most important source for the development of domestic rehabilitation science, and is of scientific and practical interest for the modern rehabilitation of war veterans and members of their families.” Therefore, they begin all their events (conferences, marathons and other good deeds) after the Divine Liturgy at the tomb of Mother Superior Mary (see photo).

In 2012, the Presidium of the Moscow Society of Natural Scientists established a “Rehabilitation” section. This section is organized on the initiative collective member of MOIP– Rehabilitation center “Human WORLD” named after Professor M.S. Mikhailovsky and employees of the Moscow State Budgetary Institution “Rehabilitation Center for Social Adaptation of Disabled Persons and Participants in Military Actions.”

The Moscow Society of Natural Scientists is proud that such courageous and strong people are its members.

The activities of the MOIP, organized in 1805, are surprisingly intertwined with the historical military events of 1812, the Battle of Borodino. Many members of the MOIP and its presidents took part in the military events of that time. It is very symbolic that the “Rehabilitation” section appeared on the eve of the bicentenary of the celebration of the victory of the Patriotic War. For many years, the people who make up the section have been striving to create an effective model of rehabilitation services for war veterans and disabled people. A significant part of this work is carried out on the Borodino field, where the Human World Rehabilitation Center “House of Defenders of the Fatherland” was created on the Borodino field by volunteers, including disabled people and war veterans.

In search of new forms and effective methods of rehabilitation, V.M. Mikhailovsky came up with an interesting mass work that combines the possibilities of sports and group rehabilitation support, which was called the “Rehabilitation March-Run”. For the first time, the Rehabilitation March-Run was carried out in Borodino on August 14, 2010 along the route Spaso-Borodinsky Monastery - Rehabilitation Center “House of Defenders of the Fatherland” on Borodino Field. The length of the route is 5.5 km. 157 people took part in the first rehabilitation march, 254 people took part in the second, and about 400 people took part in the third (2012) (and this despite the heavy rain). See photo.

Anyone interested in developing a rehabilitation service for war veterans and disabled people in Russia, MIR Man and the Dmitry Pavlenko Rehabilitation Center are invited to cooperate.

For my part, I appeal to journalists and writers with a request to write a story (story) about Dmitry Sergeevich Pavlenko, which would become a life guide for modern young people.

Anatoly Sadchikov,
Professor of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov,
Vice-President of the Moscow Society of Natural Scientists

Nowadays you can often hear about courage. Moreover, sometimes even representatives of the fair sex are endowed with this quality. Each of us will have our own opinion as to whether this is right or wrong. We invite you to find out what courage is and what a courageous man looks like now.

Courage - what is it?

It is generally accepted that a person with this quality of character is truly strong and strong-willed. Courage is one of the positive traits of everyone, manifested in the readiness to come to the aid not only of themselves and their loved ones, but even of strangers. This noble quality of character can manifest itself in any area of life:

a team;
At work;
in public life;
at war.

What does courage look like? Each of us has our own understanding of what action can be considered masculine. However, most men and women tend to believe that a courageous act is manifested in courage and willingness to sacrifice one's own life for the good of other people. An example of such an act could be saving a person during a fire or some other natural disaster. While for some this act of bravery may seem like a normal human step, for others it is truly a respectable feat.

What is courage for?

Some people live well without it, but for others it has already become a life principle. Such courageous people are found everywhere:

During a natural disaster. Sometimes you can see when people who are not very physically strong, but really brave, save those who are in trouble.
At war. Even here one can distinguish between strong, brave people and cowards who are ready to betray a friend in difficult times.
In everyday life. Sometimes it happens that a person is in danger, but only a few can come to the rescue and help the victim. Such brave people can rightfully be called courageous.

What kind of courage is there?

The following types of courage are distinguished:

Psychological– a person’s ability to see himself not as he really is, recognizing his strengths and weaknesses. Such a person’s courage allows him to outline a strategy for his development and life.
Civil– the ability to protect oneself, as well as one’s own rights in society, at work, in a team. Such people are not afraid to appear different from everyone else and stand up for their own rights.
Combat or instinctive– a person’s readiness to get into a fight. This is, first of all, a psychological ability. Such courage may be innate, but is often corrected during education. Here a lot depends on the parents and all those people who take part in.

How to become courageous?

It also happens that a person does not have such character qualities, but he has a desire to learn what courage is, becoming braver and bolder. You can develop such traits in yourself and become a truly strong and strong-willed person. To do this you need:

Increase self-esteem. It is clear that a person who is insecure is unlikely to be able to protect someone and prove to others that he is a courageous person.
Learn martial arts. This will be especially true for boys. So, if a child grows strong from an early age and is able to stand up for himself, then it will not be a problem for him to protect others.
Learn to be caring about others and what is happening around you. Such people cannot be left behind if someone is in trouble.

Courage in our time

You can still meet a person who is truly ready to help someone in trouble. Courage is shown these days not only during military operations, but also in everyday life. A courageous person will not refuse anyone if they ask him for help. Moreover, sometimes such people help others without being asked, but simply seeing such a need.

Each of us can name a lot of examples of how a person who does not have special physical strength saves a child during a fire or protects a victim on the street. In addition, courageous actions can very often be observed in war, when a person is able to prove that he is ready to protect another at the cost of his own life. Courage is the character quality of a person who overcomes difficulties in life every day for the benefit of his loved ones.

What is courage in Orthodoxy?

Orthodoxy speaks positively about such qualities as courage and nobility. By such qualities, religion understands sacrifice, a person’s ability to come to the rescue in difficult times. Moreover, these terms do not mean impudence or daring. So courageous can be called a person who is ready to sacrifice a lot for his family. When a person is ready to help those who are in trouble, he can also be called courageous and even a hero. By courage, Orthodoxy understands a benefactor, which consists in showing love for others.

It just so happens that courage is most often attributed to people who risk their lives. These could be soldiers, firefighters, rescue workers or doctors saving the lives of other people. They are awarded medals and praised. These people are unconditionally considered daredevils - few can challenge this. But this is far from the only manifestation of courage.

A brave person does not necessarily have to be distinguished by great deeds. Even a minor achievement for some people is a great feat. A timid young man who first proposed dating a girl feels like a hero inside. A plump girl, despite all her complexes, who wears a chic dress to the prom, is no less a hero. But can such people be called brave?

What is courage?

Ozhegov’s dictionary states that courage is determination, that is, the absence of fear in implementing one’s decisions. Decisive people are people who strive for their goals, no matter what. However, this is not entirely accurate, since achieving what you want may not always be associated with fear.

Mark Twain was able to express himself more accurately. According to him, brave people are not those who lack fear, but those who can resist and control it. If a person can subjugate his phobias and make an adequate decision, and most importantly, then implement it, then he can without a doubt be called brave.

What do the hero who pulled people out of a burning car and the man who speaks to the public, despite his fear, have in common? In both cases, there is an internal struggle. The first person knows that he may die, but still goes towards danger. The second one experiences unprecedented stress, but goes on stage step by step. Of course, the significance of the first event is much greater, but courage is present in both cases.

Traits of a Brave Man

Courage is characterized by the following character traits:

Bravery;
- persistence;
- vitality;
- integrity;

Courage should not be confused with recklessness. Unfortunately, this also happens quite often. There are cases when rulers, wanting to glorify their name, sent a huge army to fight against an obviously strong enemy and were brutally defeated. Or soldiers going alone into an enemy camp to prove their courage were captured or killed outright.

Courage is the golden mean between cowardice and recklessness. A fine line that distinguishes a person with great spiritual strength.