moralist
/ˈmɒr(ə)lɪst
/noun
1A person who teaches or promotes morality.Approximately half the entry is on the Greek moralists Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics....
- Third, moral philosophers and moralists in the wake of eighteenth-century cosmopolitanisms have insisted that we human beings have a duty to aid fellow humans in need, regardless of their citizenship status.
- For a moralist teaches us the anatomy of virtue and vice, helping us to see and understand what is at stake in particular judgments and practices.
1.1A person given to moralizing.But donning the robes of the moralist presents problems of its own, notably the problem of Presentism, that is judging historical figures by contemporary moral standards....
- You know: not all moral people are moralists, nor all moralists moralistic.
- But also the moralist forgets that morality cannot be imposed or legislated or begotten by an act of will.
1.2 rare A person who behaves in a morally commendable way.It's such a fascinating world and as soon as people can stop thinking of the Victorians as stuffy moralists then they can see that they were very sensual and rich....
- ‘She was a moralist and puritan who would consider the topic of sex a taboo,’ he said.
- He is the moralist for whom, in the religious life, morality counts as everything.
