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The word temperance means “moderation,” avoiding overindulgence and underindulgence—a balanced and self-disciplined way of dealing with one’s appetites. Since the early 19th century, however, temperance has been used to describe the total avoidance of drinking alcoholic beverages.
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16 Οκτ 2023 · The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the temperance movement became very big in many countries. It led to Prohibition in the United States, which lasted from 1920 to 1933.
1 Οκτ 2024 · Temperance is a major Athenian virtue, as advocated by Plato; self-restraint (sôphrosune) is one of his four core virtues of the ideal city, and echoed by Aristotle. In "Charmides", one of Plato's early dialogues, an attempt is made to describe temperance, but fails to reach an adequate definition.
16 Σεπ 2024 · Temperance movement, movement dedicated to promoting moderation and, more often, complete abstinence in the use of intoxicating liquor. The earliest temperance organizations seem to have been those founded at Saratoga, New York, in 1808 and in Massachusetts in 1813.
The Temperance Movement (see definition of temperance) was a movement in support of total abstinence from alcohol during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was generally confined to English -speaking countries, and was particularly strong in the United States and Wales.
The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the temperance movement became very big in many countries. It led to Prohibition in the United States, which lasted from 1920 to 1933.
The Temperance movement was a movement in several countries, notably the United States, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The movement blamed many of society's ills -- including joblessness and domestic violence-- on the drinking of alcoholic beverages, and tried to persuade people to abstain from these (teetotalism). Though ...
