Aurelian Craiutu 
Faces of Moderation [EPUB ebook] 
The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes

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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 exceedingly difficult to grasp theoretically. At the same time, moderation seems to be the foundation of many contemporary democratic political regimes, because the competition between part...

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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’
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Sobre el autor

Aurelian Craiutu is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author and editor of several books on French political thought, most rece...

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 304 ● ISBN 9780812293517 ● Tamaño de archivo 0.8 MB ● Editorial University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. ● Ciudad Philadelphia ● País US ● Publicado 2016 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 5513180 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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