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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?
- PART IV THE ETHOS OF MODERATION
- Intermezzo
- 1 The Spirit of Moderation
- 2 Modesty and Humility
- 3 Civility
- 4 Prudence
- 5 Realism and Pragmatic Partisanship
- PART V WHO NEEDS MODERATION TODAY?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
4 - Prudence
from PART IV - THE ETHOS OF 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?
- PART III DO MODERATES HAVE A POLITICAL VISION?
- PART IV THE ETHOS OF MODERATION
- Intermezzo
- 1 The Spirit of Moderation
- 2 Modesty and Humility
- 3 Civility
- 4 Prudence
- 5 Realism and Pragmatic Partisanship
- PART V WHO NEEDS MODERATION TODAY?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Summary
This letter comments on the affinities between prudence and moderation. It starts from the definition of prudence given by the sixteenth-century Spanish writer Baltasar Gracián in his classic book, The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence (1647), and then examines the different faces of prudence as illustrated by Titian’s famous Allegory of Prudence.
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- Why Not Moderation?Letters to Young Radicals, pp. 175 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023