Josef Pieper writes, “Every brave deed draws sustenance from preparedness for death, as from the deepest root.”13 And Pieper continues: To be brave is not the same thing as to have no fear. To be sure, fortitude excludes a certain kind of fearlessness, namely, when it is based on a mistaken appraisal and evaluation of reality. This sort of fearlessness either is blind and deaf toward actual danger or else stems from a reversal in love. For fear and love limit one another: one who does not love does not fear either, and one who loves falsely also fears falsely.
