Courage and Complacency

At the beginning of Schopenhauer as Educator, Nietzsche offers what might be construed as an explanation for the previously discussed absence of  Courage in Schopenhauer's doctrine: "Men are even lazier than they are timid, and fear most of all the inconveniences with which unconditional honesty and nakedness would burden them".  By implication, 'Courage' is, at bottom, Effort, according to Nietzsche in the statement.  However, that classification mistakes Effort as the genus of Courage for Effort as a necessary condition of Courage.  Furthermore, even granting the mistake, the formulation does not apply to Schopenhauer's system, which, as has been previously discussed, does not accommodate individual Effort in any way.  However, a bigger problem with Nietzsche's analysis is one that a later Nietzsche might detect--what Bruno, for example, likely fears and resists is not an 'inconvenience', but a lethal threat.  In other words, this younger Nietzsche trivializes Courage by reducing mortal danger to an 'inconvenience', a reduction which is itself an expression of the culture of Complacency that he casts Schopenhauer as overcoming.  Still, that is not to dismiss that reduction as unworthy of Schopenhauer.  For, the Asceticism of the latter is a luxury that similarly trivializes involuntary hardship and deprivation, as does his reduction of courageous self-sacrifice to the penetration into an illusion.  Thus, Nietzsche's own apparent complacency at this stage of his development bespeaks an accurate insight into a Complacency to which Schopenhauer's doctrine is no exception, the full implications of which he only later better understands.