Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Haecker, Theodor

  • The End of Moderation

    Theodor Haecker, Journal in the Night (Pantheon, 1950, tr. Dru), p. 29: Many a man thinks to satisfy the great virtue of moderation by using all his shrewdness and bringing all his experience to bear upon limiting his pleasure to his capacity for pleasure. But simply by the fact of setting enjoyment as the end,…