ason being thatthey feel they are stronger and nothing could happen to them, and when things turn for theworse they run. The final state of so-called bravery is ignorance. They are similar to the hopefullpeople, however they lack their self-esteem. He says that the hopefull people will standfirm for some time while the ignorant people if deceived and them realize or suspectsomething is different they run.In the final desciption of bravery Aristotle relates bravery to confidence and fear,pleasure and pain. He says that a person is brave if he is in a right state about these asappose to being in a state with inspiring confidence. He once again explains that it isbravery when someone stands against something painful because it is harder than to standagainst something which is pleasant. However, in the end bravery seems to end andpleasant things as appose to what surrounds it until the end. I will end this part of the paper with a quote which I thinks sums up what Aristotleis saying, Hence it is not true that the active exercise of every virtue is pleasant; it ispleasant only in so far as we attain the end.(1117b 19-17)...
