Politische Extreme
Backes, Uwe The Western tradition of a sovereign state, which roots go back to antiquity, inherited a centre vouching for virtuous moderation. The author compares this tradition with what it quintessentially objects to: political extremes. The terminological history of political extremes had been related for more then two centuries with the term mesotes used in the Aristotelian ethics and the theory of mixed constitution.The positions of moderation and ex...