Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What I'm talking about is moral argument froma very sectarian, narrow position, and theextremity of the methods used to advance it," headded...
...reply, Kristol disputed the idea that traditional conservatism steers clear of moral judgments...
...said that Sullivan's support of same-sex marriage rights proceeds from moral principles...
...known for his attention to good storytelling in a screenplay, but the real impact of his films is not in the tales that they tell but the ideas they present. he has often been criticized as being too clinical in his treatment of troubling subjects, of not taking a moral stand against the problems he portrayed. But that distance Kubrick maintained from his subjects was perhaps his greatest strength. It was the distance of a social critic, a diagnoser of modern ills...
...doesn't deny that there are moral aspects to literature, but he says that there is no way of knowing what effect a piece of literature will have on a reader. There is no reason to assume that literature will raise the moral standards of its readers...