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en-wikipedia-org-3066		Golden mean (philosophy) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2375	308	72	Golden mean (philosophy) Wikipedia The golden mean or golden middle way is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. In the Laws, Plato applies this principle to electing a government in the ideal state: "Conducted in this way, the election will strike a mean between monarchy and democracy …" 7:16-17, where the preacher admonishes his audience to "be not righteous over much" and to "be not over much wicked." Adam Clarke takes the phrase "righteous over much" to mean indulging in too much "austerity and hard study," [6] and concludes that "there is no need of all this watching, fasting, praying, self-denial, etc., you carry things to extremes. Jacques Maritain, throughout his Introduction to Philosophy (1930),[9] uses the idea of the golden mean to place Aristotelian-Thomist philosophy between the deficiencies and extremes of other philosophers and systems.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3066.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3066.txt