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On Moderation

Defending an Ancient Virtue in a Modern World
  • ISBN-13: 9781602581555
  • Publisher: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Harry Clor
  • Price: AUD $80.99
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  • Local release date: 28/09/2008
  • Format: Paperback (228.00mm X 163.00mm) 160 pages Weight: 263g
  • Categories: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ]
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Moderation suffers in today's culture of excesses. In resuscitating this discarded virtue, Harry Clor unveils the intrinsic power of moderation to influence and engage, from the public square to the deeply personal. A mature book from a senior scholar, On Moderation answers critics of this misunderstood value, demonstrating its continued relevance to human flourishing.
Harry Clor (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Kenyon College. He is the author of: Public Morality and Liberal Society: Essays on Decency, Law, and Pornography (1996), The Mass Media and Modern Democracy: Essays (1974), and Obscenity and Public Morality: Censorship in a Liberal Society (1971).
Acknowledgments Introduction Political Moderation: Balancing the Extremes Personal Moderation: Taming the Excess Philosophical Moderation: Tempering the Mind Conclusion Notes Bibliography Suggested Readings Index
Readers will be dazzled as Clor takes an old and neglected virtue and gives it a fully modern analysis. -James Ceaser, Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia Balanced, widely informed, gracefully written, and exhibiting a generous spirit... Recommended. General readers through research faculty. -- CHOICE Clor's readable pages are an antidote to both moralistic absolutism and amoral relativism and are written in a style that is ruminative and well illustrated and does not talk down to the nonspecialist. This book is valuable because it doesn't simply celebrate moderation, but locates moderation among the other virtues. -- The Christian Century
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