ABSTRACT

In times of trouble, we are inspired by courage. In every life and in the life of every culture, there are moments of danger. In our personal lives, we have intimate anxieties, interpersonal con˜icts, traumatic encounters, and real-life reversals. We are challenged by terminal illness, job loss, the death of a loved one. In analysis, we face uncomfortable truths. As citizens of the world, we are exposed to economic instability, global violence, and the e›ects of global warming. Some of us have endured genocide, earthquake; too many of us are living in a war zone. In the course of human existence, danger takes many forms. ere are vast di›erences between our predicaments. But these predicaments illuminate human bravery.