In Praise of Courage in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the nation via his smartphone in the center of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 26, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP

Commentary

“We become brave by doing brave acts,” observed Aristotle in the “Nicomachean Ethics,”—“by being habituated to despise things that are terrible and to stand our ground against them, we become brave, and it is when we have become so that we shall be most able to stand our ground against them.”