However, Croce did good service in calling for the independence of art, since reformers and moralists often seek to force upon art a practical end outside and beside it.
Ibsen's plays are poetry not only because of the treatment, but because of the ideas there, while many of the English eighteenth century moralists in verse are poets neither in treatment nor ideas.
Every age has had its false teachers, but possibly no age ever had so many dubious moralists as this, an incomparable series of false prophets from Rousseau himself down to Nietzsche and Tolstoy.
In a land where "falling in love" is regarded as an immoral thing, a breaking out of uncontrollable animal passion, it is not strange that it should not be glorified by moralists or sanctified by religion.
An important point for the sociological student of Japanese moral ideals is the fact that her moralists have directed their attention chiefly to the conduct of the rulers.
Furthermore, this whole feudal system, with its characteristic etiquette of conduct and speech, was authoritatively taught by moralists and religious leaders, and devoutly believed by the noblest of the land.
It has become clear that Japanese moralists have placed the emphasis of their ethical thinking on loyalty; subordinated to this has been filial piety.
Moralists are fond of such an interpretation, and it is a very interesting one.
It will further be observed that the moralists are much more able to condemn than to appreciate the effects of the arts.
Dread of sin's consequences and a desire to escape these is no unworthy motive, however some superfine moralists nowadays may call it so.
So moralists have been preaching ever since there was such a thing as temptation in the world; and men have assented to the common sense of the teaching, and then have gone straight away and done the exact opposite.
Even the loftiest pagan moralists and philosophers recklessly disregarded the most sacred social obligation at their mere caprice.
Never had moralists a more favorable opportunity to assail the sensualism of the century, the venality of consciences, and the corruption instituted by the government: instead of that, what does the Academy of Moral Sciences do?
Here he adhered to no fixed philosophical system, but, like Philo, Clement, and the Neoplatonists, adopted and adapted all that had been effected by the labours of idealistic Greek moralists since the time of Socrates.
And Catholic moralists permit under such circumstances assertions which would lead the hearers to deceive themselves by neglecting to advert to the limit of the speaker's obligation to tell the truth.
Protestant moralists have spoken out their minds plainly enough on this subject.
And at the present moment we may return with profit to the moralists of Greece.
We find it, for instance, in the writings of Tacitus, and it has supplied moralists in all ages with an illustration.
The Catholic Church does not discriminate between the sexes as regards this particular offence; moreover, evil example in a prince is held by all moralists to be more serious than in a private person.
The design, if she ever really entertained it, was not one that moralists could applaud, but in extenuation it must be urged that Lola's late defeat could not have encouraged her to persevere in the path of virtue.
We would gently remind the moralists who reason in this way that there will still be a few hundred ways left, whereby a man may make shipwreck of his life.
But moralists tell us that prohibition of any evil is not the right method to pursue; far better to leave the evil and train mankind to shun it.
Many male moralists have cried out for large families.
The severestmoralists are those who have never known the pain of temptation.
Perhaps the severest moralists are those who have conquered their temptations.
Towards it, therefore, the minds of the moralists of our age should turn; even should they judge it to be incomplete, it must nevertheless be adopted as necessary.
But since the imagination takes less lofty flights and every man's thoughts are centred in himself, moralists are alarmed by this idea of self-sacrifice, and they no longer venture to present it to the human mind.
Moralists are constantly complaining that the ruling vice of the present time is pride.
Many have protested in print; but unless, on an occasion like this, moralists raise their voice against it with all the influence which sound principles command, the saying of Dr.
Applying the same principle in a wider sense, moralists agree that human law-givers do not, and in ordinary circumstances cannot, impose obligations the fulfilment of which requires extraordinary virtue.
Moralists teach that a man is not obliged in conscience to submit to an extraordinarily painful or revolting operation even to save his life.
A special case of substantial error involving a disease unknown to the insured and undiscovered or undiscoverable by the insurance company doctors is considered by moralists as not invalidating a contract in natural law.
Some moralists think that the scandalizer is guilty of the result he foresees, because he wills it interpretatively by offering the occasion for it.
If five distinguished moralists arrive by separate study at the same conclusion (i.
Some moralists today maintain that many insurance contracts are unjust to the insured by reason of defect of proportionate risk on the part of the insurer.
The moralists themselves must not be so wedded to their opinions that they are not always ready to change when they find they are wrong or learn that the Church does not admit their view.
Some moralists consider a needless delay gravely sinful if it exceeds three or four days; others, if it exceeds ten or eleven days.
Moralists hold that three or four years would be a considerable delay in reference to a vow to enter religion.
Some moralists teach that there is no simony when a stipend is exacted for an obligatory ministry, if the simoniacal motive is absent.
Some moralists think the presumption favors the creditor, others that it favors the debtor, others that it favors neither and that a compromise is the right solution.
Our conclusions generally agreed with those announced by the greatest moralistsof the world.
The first step of all these philosophical moralists and regenerators of the human race is to attack the agency through which religion and Christianity are administered to man.
Unsophisticated men have complained with justice against the recurrent attempts of moralists to set up absolute laws, standards, virtues, which were to be applied regardless of the specific circumstances of specific situations.
Nor does the leading of a moral life, as Kant and other moralists said or implied, demand a stern and lugubrious countenance and a sad, resigned determination to be good.
The most obvious and frequent line of attack that empirical moralists make upon Intuitionalism is to examine and compare the various "intuitions" of right conduct which have been held by men in different ages and places.
But reproduction has been in human history promiscuous, and increase of population has been less a problem to moralists and economists than has its restriction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moralists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
