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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?
- Interlude
- 1 Rediscovering Moderation in Our Immoderate Age
- 2 The Skepticism toward Moderation and What Its Critics Miss about It
- 3 The Archipelago of Moderation (I)
- 4 The Archipelago of Moderation (II)
- 5 An Alternative to Ideology
- 6 An Antidote to Fanaticism
- PART III DO MODERATES HAVE A POLITICAL VISION?
- PART IV THE ETHOS OF MODERATION
- PART V WHO NEEDS MODERATION TODAY?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Interlude
from PART II - WHAT KIND OF VIRTUE IS MODERATION?
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?
- Interlude
- 1 Rediscovering Moderation in Our Immoderate Age
- 2 The Skepticism toward Moderation and What Its Critics Miss about It
- 3 The Archipelago of Moderation (I)
- 4 The Archipelago of Moderation (II)
- 5 An Alternative to Ideology
- 6 An Antidote to Fanaticism
- PART III DO MODERATES HAVE A POLITICAL VISION?
- PART IV THE ETHOS OF MODERATION
- PART V WHO NEEDS MODERATION TODAY?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Summary
As I was rereading the last exchanges, I realized that an important idea had been left out of our conversation. It is possible to think of moderation as expressing a genuine and firm commitment to an inclusive vision of a decent society, with its own values, rules, procedures, and institutions. It is this sense of moderation that I seek to outline in the following pages. Yet, before I attempt to describe the political vision and ethos of moderation, it is important to explore what kind of virtue the latter is, so that we can better understand its underlying philosophy and institutional implications that often go unnoticed.
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- Why Not Moderation?Letters to Young Radicals, pp. 29 - 30Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023