moral science

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He studied English literature in Paris at the Sorbonne and graduated with honors from Trinity College in Dublin with a degree in mental and moral science.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2011

He had read Locke and Burke, and he was deeply influenced by Friedrich A. Hayek, professor of social and moral science at the University of Chicago and author of The Road to Serfdom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ab′ercrombie, John, M.D., a Scottish writer on medical and moral science, and an eminent physician, born in Aberdeen, 1781, died at Edinburgh in 1844.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

These novels are chiefly valuable as character-studies by an earnest student of moral science whose literary bias tempted him to throw them into the form of fiction.

From Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 by Wright, Henrietta Christian

So viewed, moral science is a necessary element of a sound education, and the higher its principles the more the conscience is raised and refined.

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul