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- WHY NOT MODERATION?
- Why Not Moderation?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Caveat lector!
- About This Book
- Prologue Why Radical Moderation?
- PART I THE WORLD WE LIVE IN
- PART II WHAT KIND OF VIRTUE IS MODERATION?
- PART III DO MODERATES HAVE A POLITICAL VISION?
- Interlude
- 1 The Limits of Moral Clarity
- 2 Against the Politics of Warfare
- 3 No Manichaeism and No Litmus Tests
- 4 Compromise
- 5 Trimming and Balance
- 6 Centrism
- 7 Eclecticism and Pluralism
- 8 Dialogue
- PART IV THE ETHOS OF MODERATION
- PART V WHO NEEDS MODERATION TODAY?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
4 - Compromise
from PART III - DO MODERATES HAVE A POLITICAL VISION?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2023
- WHY NOT MODERATION?
- Why Not Moderation?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Caveat lector!
- About This Book
- Prologue Why Radical Moderation?
- PART I THE WORLD WE LIVE IN
- PART II WHAT KIND OF VIRTUE IS MODERATION?
- PART III DO MODERATES HAVE A POLITICAL VISION?
- Interlude
- 1 The Limits of Moral Clarity
- 2 Against the Politics of Warfare
- 3 No Manichaeism and No Litmus Tests
- 4 Compromise
- 5 Trimming and Balance
- 6 Centrism
- 7 Eclecticism and Pluralism
- 8 Dialogue
- PART IV THE ETHOS OF MODERATION
- PART V WHO NEEDS MODERATION TODAY?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Ths chapter examines compromise as a face of moderation and shows how compromise properly understood can help us address the deep affective and ideological polarization in American society today. The compromsing mindset open to conciliation and bargaining is opposed to the uncompromising one that borders on authoritarianism.
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- Why Not Moderation?Letters to Young Radicals, pp. 103 - 109Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023