Aristotle said that the praus man is the one who has the virtue of the mean between two extremes.
For example, if there were a continuum with recklessness on one end and cowardice on the other end, the virtue in the middle would be courage.
This is how Aristotle defined it in relation to anger. The praus person, the meek person, is the one who feels anger on the right grounds, against the right person, in the right manner, at the right moment, for the right amount of time. Notice that he didn’t say: A meek person never gets angry.
Meekness is developing a focussed, deliberate center.
Every Power Principle has a polar opposite, such as mess on one end and order on the other. On one day I could teach the power of embracing mess. And I would be right. The next day I could teach the power principle of creating order. So which is right? Embracing mess or creating order? The answer is finding the right middle place. It isn’t healthy to wholly inhabit one extreme or the other. [See Ep . 36 Organized Chaos]
Meekness is the effort of pulling both extremes together to find strength in the middle.