Golden mean

Golden mean may refer to:

• Golden mean (philosophy), the felicitous middle between the extremes of excess and deficiency
• Golden mean (Judaism), a philosophy pertaining to body and soul in Jewish belief
• Golden ratio, a specific mathematical ratio (sometimes called golden mean)
• Golden ratio (mathematics and visual art)
• The Golden Mean (1993), third novel in The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy by Nick Bantock
• The golden-mean fallacy, another name for the argument to moderation
• Doctrine of the Golden Mean, a chapter in Li Ji, one of the Four Books of Confucianism

• Ethic of reciprocity, also known as the Golden Rule