moralism

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Born in Virginia and educated in history and political science at Johns Hopkins University, Wilson became a respected intellectual in his fields with an interest in public service and a profound sense of moralism.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

We are human supremacists whose vanity and moralism and tortured ambivalence make us uniquely unhappy and destructive.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2020

“She wanted to go beneath moralism to something deeper, to sacrificial love,” said Munroe, now 73 and retired.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2020

And he seems less driven by moralism than bound by legalism.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2019

For the empiricists of Aesthetic, intellectualism and moralism represent progress; for the intellectualists, hedonistic and moralistic alike, agnosticism is progress and may be called Kant.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto