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

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

The same is true of grammar, of geography, of history, of composition, of rhetoric, of mental and moral science, of elocution,—of every branch.

From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by Hart, John S. (John Seely)

He affects not to be ambitious, and to prefer moral science to immoral politics.

From Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange by Hobbes, John Oliver