Moderation
Moderation is the process or trait of eliminating, lessening, or avoiding extremes. It is used to ensure
- A way of life emphasizing perfect amounts of everything, not indulging in too much of one thing.
- A moderation system.
- Ensuring consistency and accuracy in the marking of student assessments.
- A "moderator" is one name for the formal position of one who Methodistchurch's use of the term for the heads of its conferences.
- A neutron moderator is used to slow down neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
History
Ancient Greece
Moderation is also a principle of life. In ancient Greece, the temple of Apollo at Delphi bore the inscription Meden Agan (μηδὲν ἄγαν)—"Nothing in excess". Doing something "in moderation" means not doing it excessively. For instance, someone who moderates their food consumption tries to eat all food groups, but limits their intake of those that may cause deleterious effects to harmless levels.
According to the
From the pre-Socratics through the Hippocratic and Galenic corpus, and in the writings of such Stoic philosophers as Epictetus and Seneca, health was seen to flow from observing moderation—in exercise, in study, and in diet.
Christianity
In
In the apocryphal Book of Wisdom moderation is listed among the greatest virtues.[2]
Islam and Judaism
Wasat, also called wasatiyyah (
The Jewish philosopher Maimonides, who was heavily influenced by Islamic and Aristotelian thought, also set forth moderation as an ideal within Judaism.[4]
Taoism
Moderation is considered a key part of one's personal development in Chinese
Moderation as a principle of Taoist philosophy turns up in all three of its main texts.
Others
Moderation is a characteristic of the Swedish national psyche, more specifically described by the Swedish synonym Lagom.
See also
- Aparigraha– Philosophy that holds that no one or anything possesses anything
- Golden mean (philosophy) – Aphorism against extremism
- Middle Way (Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta)
- Modesty – Mode of dress and deportment which intends to avoid encouraging of sexual attraction in others
- Temperance – Cardinal virtue of control over excess
References
- ISBN 978-0801894213.
- ^ "The Book of Wisdom: Chapter 8". United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
- ISBN 9789810510329.. United Printing Publishing and Distributing. p. 177.
- Hashem, Ahmad Omar (1999). Moderation in Islam
External links
The dictionary definition of moderation at Wiktionary