Temperance

Luigino Bruni ()

A chapter in A Lexicon of Social Well-Being, 2015, pp 110-113 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Temperance is a word that is fading from our civil vocabulary. It disappeared long ago from the economic vocabulary in order to leave space for its opposite. We ended up using it for pencils, the climate, musical scales, or Bach’s harpsichord pieces instead. These things are also important, but not those that are normally placed at the heart of our civil lives or social pact.

Keywords: Virtue Ethic; Civil Life; Musical Scale; Church Father; Social Pact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889_30

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