 To illustrate his reading of Aristotle, Green discusses two of Aristotle’s virtues: courage and temperance. He notes that both virtues appear to be more restricted in scope than commonsense would suggest. In discussing courage, Aristotle limits courage to facing fear in danger of death in defense of one’s city (Nicomachean Ethics 1115a25–29). A man who faces death by drowning or disease is not courageous. Courage is restricted to facing death in battle for one’s city because such action aims at the common good and is the finest form of death. Green uses these points in Aristotle’s discussion to show that Aristotle’s view rests on a general principle that can widen the circumstances of courage in a way that Green accepts. In Green’s view, courage is a matter of facing the danger of death “in the service of the highest public cause which the agent can conceive” (1969, 260). 