In philosophical ethics, the golden mean represents the desirable middle between which two extremes?
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Correct answer: D. Deficiency and excess
- Step 1: The golden mean or golden middle way is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. Answer: Deficiency and excess. Why not the others: "Pleasure and pain" were the sensations analyzed by Epicureanism rather than the definition of the Aristotelian mean; "Knowledge and ignorance" were the primary moral poles in Socratic intellectualism ('virtue is knowledge'); "Duty and desire" were the opposing categories central to modern Kantian deontological ethics.
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