Courage is Life (IMAX movie)/Transcript

Opening Scene

 * Jennifer Hudson: [narrating] Courage, life, where. Every year, courage is always needed courage, is life. What happened if Sir Shawn J. Nicholas Junior need courage? Well, let’s look at the history of courage.

Back in the Pre-19th Century

 * Jennifer Hudson: [continue narrating] Back in the Pre-29th century, Thomas Hobbes lists virtues into the categories of moral virtues and virtues of men in his work "Man and Citizen." Hobbes outlines moral virtues as virtues in citizens, that is virtues that without exception are beneficial to society as a whole.

19th Century Onward

 * Jennifer Hudson: [continue narrating] Now in the 19th century onward, Søren Kierkegaard opposed courage to angst, while Paul Tillich opposed an existential courage to be with non-being, fundamentally equating it with religion: Courage is the self-affirmation of being in spite of the fact of non-being.
 * Jennifer Hudson: J.R.R. Tolkien identified in his 1936 lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" a "Northern theory. Ernest Hemingway famously defined courage as "grace under pressure."
 * Jennifer Hudson: Winston Churchill stated, "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all others." According to Maya Angelou, "Courage is the most important of the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
 * Jennifer Hudson: In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche describes master–slave morality, in which a noble man regards himself as a "determiner of values;" one who does not require approval, but passes judgment.
 * Jennifer Hudson: According to the Swiss psychologist Andreas Dick, courage consists of the following components: 1. put at risk, risk or repugnance, or sacrifice safety or convenience, which may result in death, bodily harm, social condemnation or emotional deprivation. 2. a knowledge of wisdom and prudence about what is right and wrong in a given moment. 3. Hope and confidence in a happy, meaningful outcome. 4. a free will. And 5. a motive based on love.

Ending Scene

 * Jennifer Hudson: [continue narrating] So, here we have it folks, here’s my courage. See more at courage.gov/historyofthecourage.

Credits
Created and Directed by Annie Sullivan Produced by George Harris and Bernard Simpson