Word: moralist
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...Moralist Moberly's thesis, first spelled out in a series of lectures at the University of Durham, is based on the fact that there are two current conceptions of responsibility and hence of moral judgment. The lawyer-moralist has one idea. The psychologist has another. And society is torn between them...
Though Author Collier sometimes tries to point a subtle moral in his tales, he is not so much a moralist as an entertainer. In his own little department of the bizarre, he is as good as they come...
...English universities who founded Harvard, and the graduates of Harvard who founded Yale, brought to us a living shoot from the tree of learning whose roots reach down through western culture to ancient Greece . . . The founders' respect for learning speaks for itself: the scholar rubs elbows with the moralist. Both share the natural piety, the simple moral earnestness that for all our shortcomings has pervaded our culture and extended the aims of American higher edu cation beyond the mere cultivation of the intellect to the preparation for life in a free society and the discovery and fulfillment...
Thus Nehru the moralist, to whose terrible truisms the only answer is a shamefaced...
...Nehru, at least to Western eyes, is no inscrutable, innocent madman of integrity like William Blake. Why, then-Western minds would like to know-doesn't Nehru the moralist make Nehru the leader hang his head in shame? Perhaps he does; but the practical West, which must deal with net results, is necessarily less concerned with Nehru the paradox than with Nehru the politico...