The most famous champion of the moralistic view of art in modern times is Tolstoy.
Scholars of the more austere Kamakura period (1185-1333) took a moralistic view of Heian court culture, and the work that most famously represented it.
Plato is the first champion in the Western world of the moralistic view of art at least in the Republic and the Laws.
I thought he might say something about who had a more moralistic view of weight, or who was more trusting of the medical system.
Diametrically opposed to the moralistic view is aestheticism, the view that, instead of art (and everything else) being the handmaiden of morality, morality (and everything else) should be the handmaiden of art.
You write that Rice's views seem to have changed somewhat since she entered the Administration — that they have veered away from realism in foreign policy and toward a "moralistic" view of America's place in the world.
The moralistic view of art is still, on the whole, the unarticulated view of art held by the masses, particularly when they are under the sway of a dominant religious or political doctrine.
Nixon and Kissinger were clearly not burdened with an excessively moralistic view of foreign policy, but many postwar Administrations, Democratic as well as Republican, violated American ideals of democracy and human rights while pursuing what they saw — mostly wrongly — as national interests.
Spain is finally buckling down, but Italy is still failing to implement many of the reforms it needs and France remains in denial: last weekend François Hollande, its president, blithely announced that the euro crisis was over.Yet this moralistic view is based on a selective reading of history.
It is precisely this moralistic view of authority that Machiavelli criticizes at length in his best-known treatise, The Prince.
