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On Moderation: Defending an Ancient Virtue in a Modern World

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First, I should write an acknowledgement. I was a student of Professor Clor at Kenyon College in the fall of 1977. He lectured on Plato and Aristotle.

I enjoyed reading this book. Professor Clor seeks to find a place for moderation as a virtue in modernity. He explores it as a political, individual and philosophic virtue. With his philosophic cast of mind, he is open to explore alternate arguments. He has a real rather than an armchair grasp of the passions and why moderation is needed for self-mastery. One can see that he has deliberated long and hard recognizing both the power of passions and the troubles that they may cause if left unchecked.

This new book by Harry Clor is a book for thoughtful people who long to read, or learn how to reflect on, controversial topics by the light of reason and sensibility. MODERATION models the post-partisan discussion that President Obama espouses...it illuminates a path to civility. Clor has written this book in the manner of his teaching: carefully exploring a variety of perspectives and/or ojections to a theses.

Full disclosure: I, too, was a Political Science student of Professor Clor's in 1983-85. His teaching regarding the ancient's understanding of the soul continues to inform my practice as a psychotherapist.