Sentence examples for moralistic attitude from inspiring English sources

Spinoza criticises people who, believing "that man rather disturbs than follows the order of nature, that he has absolute power over his actions", tend to adopt a misguidedly moralistic attitude.

It is built on the conviction that the industrial economics of food growing and delivery are bad for us and bad for the planet, but it also has an implicit moralistic attitude that prefers small country patches over big urban deserts.

The problem is people do take a rather moralistic attitude to politics, when much of it involves being pragmatic.

These basic themes were then grouped into organizing themes and then universal themes, such as "moralistic attitude about sex work".

Both studies reported displaying a moralistic attitude in counseling had a negative impact on a child's mental health and psychosocial well-being.

Other countries' business cultures have more moralistic attitudes towards bankruptcy.

Aesthetic and moralistic attitudes were positively, and negativistic attitudes negatively, correlated with support for conservation in both groups.

He soon developed a style marked by black humour and punctuated with obscenity, and, as he gained notoriety, he focused his material on criticisms of the social and legal establishments, organized religion, moralistic attitudes toward sex and drugs, and other controversial subjects.

Although one might argue that this has nothing to do with the teaching of the gospels – in which we see Jesus's kindness to "sinners" and his recognition of the hypocrisy of those who judge others harshly – the Christian culture that Russell himself experienced certainly included moralistic attitudes.

By tracing this stigma both to aristocratic prejudice toward waged laborers and to moralistic attitudes and anxieties regarding female sexual expression, Nussbaum challenges the rational basis of the stigma (Nussbaum 1999, 278 79, 286 88).

I think that people's religious beliefs and moralistic attitudes have hampered the move towards sexual help".