On Moderation: Defending an Ancient Virtue in a Modern World

by Harry Clor

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602582217
Publisher:	Baylor University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Political Moderation: Balancing the Extremes

Personal Moderation: Taming the Excess

Philosophical Moderation: Tempering the Mind

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Suggested Readings

Index

What People are Saying About This

Readers will be dazzled as Clor takes an old and neglected virtue and gives it a fully modern analysis.

James Ceaser

Readers will be dazzled as Clor takes an old and neglected virtue and gives it a fully modern analysis.

Martha Bayles

Is moderation inspiring? After reading this lucid, profound book, your answer will be yes. Harry Clor flings a tightrope across the abyss of modern thought, then shows how excess, that clumsy beast, is bound to fall, while moderation, sure-footed as the author himself, crosses lightly and gracefully to wisdom.

Editorial Reviews

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

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.

Balanced, widely informed, gracefully written, and exhibiting a generous spirit... Recommended. General readers through research faculty.

Is moderation inspiring? After reading this lucid, profound book, your answer will be yes. Harry Clor flings a tightrope across the abyss of modern thought, then shows how excess, that clumsy beast, is bound to fall, while moderation, sure-footed as the author himself, crosses lightly and gracefully to wisdom.

Readers will be dazzled as Clor takes an old and neglected virtue and gives it a fully modern analysis.

From the Publisher

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.

Christian Century