Conclusion:
Both bravery and temperance
are achieved through right reason and choice.
Premises:
EP1. Bravery is having
the courage or confidence to stand firm in the face of fear. (40)
EP2. Man fears all bad
things but we cannot be brave in all circumstances of fear. (40)
A.
Man cannot be brave in the face of bad grades, break
ups and death. (40)
B.
Man can be brave in the face of death only in
certain occasions such as war. (41)
EP3. Bravery is something
that happens event to event we are not always brave but rather brave when we
need to be. (41).
A.
Man needs to be in the right place at the right
time. (41)
B.
Man needs to have the right reason for his
actions for them to be considered brave. (41)
IP4. Bravery is very
circumstantial.
IP5. To be brave both
your end and your mean must be done for good
EP6. A rash person is
someone who is overly confident in the face of fear. (42)
A.
A rash person is someone that goes looking for
the fight. (42)
B.
A Brave person is some who is brave when the
fight comes to him. (42)
EP7. A Coward is someone
who is afraid more times than not. (42)
A. This
person fears things that are not seen as frightening by the public. (42)
EP8. Training and
experience do not equal bravery. (43)
A.
Professional soldiers’ training gives them the
essence of bravery because they have trained for similar situations (43)
a.
When overwhelmed they tend to panic and do
shameful things. (43)
B.
Citizen troops are brave because they are
fighting for their homeland this means they will stand firm to protect their
own. (43)
EP9. Sprit doesn’t bravery. (43)
A. Emotions
such as rage and passion may give the person reason to fight but they are not
the reasons that are behind bravery. (43)
EP10. Hopeful people are not brave people. (44)
A. Hope
inspires people to do things by giving them a false sense of character such as
strength, stealthiness, and invincibility. (44)
EP11. Ignorance
doesn’t equal bravery but only a person who is misinformed. (44)
EP12. Bravery is
something that is hard to do it involves a lot of pain. (45)
EP13. The end of
Bravery is honor which is pleasant but most often this pleasure is outweighed
by the pain. (45)
EP14. Temperance is
the balance between to much pleasure and to little pleasure. (45)
EP15. Temperance
involves pleasure of the body or physical word. (46)
A.
Things such as colors, sounds, smells are
neither Temperate or intemperate.
B.
Unless these sounds, colors, smells remind man
of his appetite. (46)
a.
Therefore the smell of a fresh rain is temperate
but the smell of bacon is intemperate because it triggers a desire for
consumption. (46)
EP16. The senses that
involve temperance are touch and taste. (46)
A. These
senses are bestial. (46)
EP17. Temperance and
Bravery are voluntary. (48)
A.
Being a coward is a choice to turn and flea in
the face of fears.
B.
Being in temperate is a choice to act on bestial
pleasure such as gluttony or sex.
