Özet:

Courage has come to us as a concept that has not lost its popularity by philosophers throughout history. It is possible to find an explanation of courage not only in philosophy, but in relatively every field of social sciences. Although this is a very interesting topic, it is still a controversial topic about what courage means. Despite the increasing interest of courage in foreign literature, it is observed that courage does not see the interest it deserves in domestic literature. The need for interdisciplinary research on courage continues. In this study, a discovery-quality research on what courage is, how to be defined, has been attempted to discover the understanding, the definition of courage in our society, and thus the components of courage. In this framework, we have taken the definitions of courage from 106 people and these definitions have been analyzed through the MAXQDA 2020 qualification research program and the components in the definition of courage have been identified accordingly; risk, fear, power, consciousness, doing what is needed, making decisions, goal, difficult conditions, morality, generosity and choice.