Faces of Moderation : : The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes / / ed. by Aurelian Craiutu.
Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character—its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action—makes it e...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue. In Search of an Elusive Virtue
- Chapter 1. The Ethos of Moderation
- Chapter 2. The Lucidity of Moderation: Raymond Aron as a “Committed Observer”
- Chapter 3. Moderation as an Antidote to Monism: Isaiah Berlin’s Cold War Liberalism
- Chapter 4. Meekness as a Face of Moderation: Norberto Bobbio’s Politics of Dialogue
- Chapter 5. Moderation and Trimming: Michael Oakeshott’s Politics of Skepticism
- Chapter 6. Radical Moderation and the Search for Moral Clarity: Adam Michnik’s Lesson
- Epilogue. Beyond the Golden Mean
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments