In Plato’s Laches, dealing with “courage,” it is offered early on that courage will require a knowledge of the grounds of “fear and hope.” But that could involve the art of a soothsayer, and that sense of things is eventually supplanted: the one who risks his life, in a courageous act, must know something of the moral ends that justify the sacrifice.
Ryan Anderson has taken it as his mission to make the case for marriage as the “one flesh” union of a man and woman, exclusive and enduring, a framework of lawfulness to envelop the begetting and nurturing of children. In making that his mission, he has exposed himself to derision and hatefulness, unending. The only way to explain what makes him persist is his serene confidence in the truth of the moral case for marriage – and as he puts it, “our right to live in accordance with the truth.”
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