The great Russian writer and philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote to his beloved Maria: "On the street where you live, there are nine women more beautiful than you, seven women taller than you, nine women shorter than you, and one woman wh…

Plato, the great philosopher, identified four classical virtues that define a life of moral excellence: wisdom, justice, self-control, and courage. Among these, his discussion on courage, particularly in The Republic , offers one of the most profoun…