Chapter 6. Radical Moderation and the Search for Moral Clarity: Adam Michnik’s Lesson

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue. In Search of an Elusive Virtue 1
4. Chapter 1. The Ethos of Moderation 13
5. Chapter 2. The Lucidity of Moderation: Raymond Aron as a “Committed Observer” 34
6. Chapter 3. Moderation as an Antidote to Monism: Isaiah Berlin’s Cold War Liberalism 71
7. Chapter 4. Meekness as a Face of Moderation: Norberto Bobbio’s Politics of Dialogue 112
8. Chapter 5. Moderation and Trimming: Michael Oakeshott’s Politics of Skepticism 148
9. Chapter 6. Radical Moderation and the Search for Moral Clarity: Adam Michnik’s Lesson 186
10. Epilogue. Beyond the Golden Mean 228
11. Notes 247
12. Bibliography 269
13. Index 281
14. Acknowledgments 293