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.
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© 2015 Luigino Bruni
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Bruni, L. (2015). Temperance. In: A Lexicon of Social Well-Being. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137528889_30
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