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

Stabler is actually married — his wife, Kathy, a beleaguered but supportive high-school sweetheart — and comes to his job with old-school morals and white-knight moralism: defender of the weak with a notoriously short fuse.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 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

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

From Washington Post • May 24, 2019

The moralism of Schiller has the same source and the same glorification of the source.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm