moralism

How To Use moralism In A Sentence

• Older conservatives, informed by the just-war tradition and more sensitive to the idea of absolute moral standards than to the amoralism of Machiavelli, were capable of rendering critical judgments on their own governments.
• Hypocrisy, though not evident regarding Bennett, is far superior to its replacement in the modern era, relativistic amoralism, as pure behavior seems lacking amongst our fellow humans. "For Republicans, there's only one candidate of hope: Hillary Rodham Clinton."
• Anarchy cannot be on any political spectrum, as anarchy is not a political theory any more than amoralism is a form of ethical theory. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Feel Like I’m Taking Crazy Pills
• Confucian thought is characterized by a spirit of humanism, rationalism, and moralism.
• Ultimately, the moralism of Veber's fable becomes slightly cloying, as the film suggests that a simple change in perspective from time to time is enough to make that stultifying job at the plant more bearable.
• They are allowing their discourse to be colonized by a moralism more appropriate to the pulpit than to the soap-box.
• The reformers were charged with placing an abstract moralism above the discipline of the historical and present reality of slavery.
• Policies to avoid bias in the conduct and reporting of research should be guided by scientific principles, not by moralism or prejudice.
• Our more skeptical age is apt to greet a performance like this with a smirk, as just more fussy Victorian moralism.
• Addressing an audience that was torn between the demythologizing heritage of the enlightenment on the one hand, and attempts to reassert traditional moral and religious principles on the other, Scott combines the economic amoralism of progressive historical discourse with the romance of disinterested personal virtue. Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism