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28.08.2017 | Book Review
Paul O. Carrese, Democracy in Moderation: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Sustainable Liberalism
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 230 pp. $99.99. ISBN: 978–1107121058
Erschienen in: Society | Ausgabe 5/2017
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In a mostly neglected Platonic dialogue, Lovers, Socrates recounts his discussion with a group of rivalrous lovers, primarily about what it is to philosophize and whether or not it is noble to do so. In the course of discussion the notion of “the measured amount” of things, or moderation, emerges for consideration, as illustrated by the following:…‘And is to be ignorant of oneself to be moderate or not to be moderate?’‘Not to be moderate.’‘Then to know oneself is to be moderate?’‘Yes, I say,’ he said.‘It looks, then, as if this is what the writing in Delphi exhorts: to practice moderation and justice’ (138a5-11).