via media

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin via media (“middle way”).

Noun

via media

1. A third way; a middle course, a compromise.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 199:

     The quip highlighted the extent to which the philosophes were seeking a via media between what they saw as the morally and intellectually impoverished tradition of Christian revelation and its embattled polar opposite, a sceptical materialism [...].

See also

• middle ground
• golden mean