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    The Golden Mean is Aristotle's principle of moderation between two extremes. It aims to identify the virtuous middle ground for actions, avoiding excess and insufficiency. However, precisely locating this middle is impossible, risking mediocrity instead of true goodness. While providing a standard, the Golden Mean lacks specificity and may fall short of optimal moderation.

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    The Golden Mean is Aristotle's principle of moderation between two extremes. It aims to identify the virtuous middle ground for actions, avoiding excess and insufficiency. However, precisely locating this middle is impossible, risking mediocrity instead of true goodness. While providing a standard, the Golden Mean lacks specificity and may fall short of optimal moderation.

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    The Golden Mean is Aristotle's principle of moderation between two extremes. It aims to identify the virtuous middle ground for actions, avoiding excess and insufficiency. However, precisely locating this middle is impossible, risking mediocrity instead of true goodness. While providing a standard, the Golden Mean lacks specificity and may fall short of optimal moderation.

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    AIRON KEITH M.

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    An Evaluation of Aristotle’s Golden Mean

    The Golden Mean is Aristotle’s principle that focuses on moderation. It is all


    about reaching a middle ground between two extremes. These two extremes are the
    excessiveness or insufficiency of an action.

    This Golden Mean is indeed a noble act that aims to arrive at the action that is
    considered good. We benefit from it by knowing a certain extent to which an action can
    neither be in excess or insufficient, or in short, a standard for goodness. However, in my
    opinion, it is nigh impossible to pinpoint the exact location such middle ground. Due to
    this fact, the action may be considered as good, but still run the risk of mediocrity. Thus,
    it fails to reach the true potential of a good action.

    In conclusion, the Golden Mean has its benefits and drawbacks. It provides a
    criterion for good actions, but it fails to be specific in terms of its degree. In my opinion,
    this will ultimately result to a good action that can essentially be better, or one that falls
    a tad bit short of being truly moderate.

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