Golden mean tool

Let me illustrate a few. Use the calipers as shown below to determine the best placement of the focal point and other key elements of a composition. In portraits, eyes and mouths are important features for focal points. Use calipers for cropping the sides of an image.

Lay the calipers over a photo print, to determine the best way to crop it. Use the calipers to determine the placement of a design element within a larger panel. Avoiding the middle also applies when taking lines or elements off the edge of a composition. This tool is also useful when adding borders to a traditional block quilt.

One method is to start with the blocks themselves. Place the outer points of the calipers at the edges of the blocks. This will give you two new measurements that will be in harmony with the blocks.

Use the larger measurement for the total width of the border. This area can further be divided by placing the outer points of the calipers on the edges of the border area. A person is courageous out of practice rather than duty or to produce some desired effect. The Golden Mean is a means of assisting a person in practicing good character as they strive to make it second nature.

Aristotle believed that the good life lived from exercising capacity to reason. Practicing virtue is a practice of intellectual reason. Aristotle did not promote virtue in itself as being ethical though. He wrote that the study of ethics is not precise. So, modern virtue ethicists believe that a good ethical theory is necessarily imprecise.

Rather than giving precise rules as in the case of deontology and utilitarianism. These are two competing ethical theories. Striking a balance in certain situations may be warranted. This can be a good exercise in heuristics. But using this as a standard of measure for determining the truth between two things can actually lead to a logical fallacy.

In politics, we see a problem manifest in how Americans typically think of the political spectrum. In theology, we might see this as a balance between two doctrines. This is known as the Middle Ground fallacy.

It presumes that the truth is simply a matter of finding the balance between two extremes. In politics, it would be wrong to say that the best political stance is halfway between Democrats and Republicans. It is true recklessness is an excess of courage, and it is true that cowardice is a deficiency of courage.