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.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. วารสารราชบัณฑิตยสถาน ปีที่ ๓๙ ฉบับที่ ๑ ม.ค.-มี.ค. ๒๕๕๗ 208 มัชฌิมนิยม Abstract Moderationism Siddhi Butr-Indr Associate Fellow of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, The Royal Institute, Thailand Moderationism indicates Philosophy of the Middle Way to human objects, originated in India and China of the East and in Greece of the West. It signifies a middle course of living non-extreme, upright, justice, impartiality, reasonability, normal-good and fair, balancedness, integrity, harmony. Comparatively, such two philosophical lines may be different only in their objects, while their analogical aspects characterize prevention of two contradictory extremisms of Idealism -Theism and Materialism-Hedonism. They used similar methods of analyzing, scrutinizing and finally synthesizing all propositions into their Moderationism with emphasis on ontology, ethics, axiology and logic. Later on the wise and learned have interpreted and modified this into their philosophies of socio-culture, politics and economics, education, and environment. Aristotle in Greece has analysised and scrutinized Demoritus’ Materialism and Plato’s Idealism, and then synthesized their arguable views to initiate his Moderationism called ‘the Golden Mean’. He explained it by citing analogical example of ‘moderation in food satiation’ for human balanced livelihood of integrated, good health of ‘Sound Mind in Sound Body’, though no same measure for everyone. In China Taoism of Lao-Tze has regulated the middle way for man the natural balance, normality, propriety, peace and satisfaction, following the natural course of Yin Yang as in all things as into their interrelations of the nature and man, body and mind,