单词 | moralism |
释义 | moralismn. 1. The practice of moralizing; preoccupation with moral teaching or morality; (now) esp. the tendency to make moral judgements. Also: an act of moralizing; a moral lesson. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > serious saying, dictum > [noun] > moral moralityc1390 moralc1528 affabulation1641 prudential1719 moralism1836 maxim1883 1674 Hogan-Moganides 47 So well read in Moralisms, And old Hypocrites Aphorisms. 1828 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 674 A' she writes has..an endearin' mainnerism and moralism about it. 1836 Fraser's Mag. 14 703 In all their poetry..we find no romance, no fable; but familiar descriptions, and sharp and lively moralisms. 1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home xx. 257 A delicious spice of worldliness..which was quite refreshing to him, accustomed as he was to the somewhat droning moralisms of his ‘congenial friends’. 1975 Listener 15 May 651/3 There is a fundamental moralism..in..the United States. 1991 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Mar. 7/3 The result was a ‘de-moralizing of criminality’,..a shift from ‘moralism’ to ‘causalism’ in the analysis of crime. 2. Chiefly Theology. The practice of a natural system of morality; religion consisting of or reduced to moral practice; morality practised impersonally or without sympathy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] > natural system of morality naturalisma1641 moralism1850 1850 H. James (title) Moralism and Christianity. 1872 Contemp. Rev. 19 810 No mere philosophy or moralism can ever transmute itself with evangelical righteousness. 1889 W. B. Carpenter Permanent Elem. Relig. vi. 210 There is in the realm of morality a shadow corresponding to that which we saw waiting on religion. This shadow we shall call Moralism. 1889 W. B. Carpenter Permanent Elem. Relig. vi. 212 Thus, where inward sympathy with good is lacking, though there may be outward moralism, there can be no true morality. 1890 H. S. Bowden tr. F. L. Hettinger Nat. Relig. 284 (note) We describe this theory [sc. the moral idea as independent of religion] as ‘moralism’. 1941 A. Huxley Grey Eminence iii. 79 ‘We should accomplish our acts of virtue’, says Bérulle, ‘more through relation and homage to Jesus Christ than out of desire for the same virtue in itself.’ And we should do this, not only because all true religion is theocentric, but also because theocentrism produces better ethical results than anthropocentrism and moralism. 1956 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 9 72 It is also a healthy corrective to certain characteristic tendencies—the anthropocentrism and moralism—of Hebrew theology as a whole. 1998 Church Times 17 Apr. 17/4 A rallying of all the voluntarist forces of Victorian moralism in all the Churches. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1674 |
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