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单词 immoralism
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Definition of immoralism in English:

immoralism

noun
mass noun
  • A system of thought or behaviour that does not accept moral principles.

    非道德主义,非道德论

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Given what was said about immoralism, moralism must be advocating the pro tanto principle that a work is aesthetically good insofar as it is ethically good, but this does not determine its aesthetic value, all things considered.
    • She begins with a preliminary account of Plato's response to immoralism in the first two books of the Republic.
    • Despite the inconsistency, they think that Thrasymachus is ultimately advocating an immoralism since justice is defined as ‘another's good,’ i.e., the advantage of the stronger tyrant.
    • But his aesthetic immoralism remained in substance unchanged - it only bowed down before the rule of dogmatic Christianity.
    • The extremism of Nietzsche's immoralism was in his proclaiming that morality could no longer be rooted in human nature, because in the future human nature would be transformed, if not abolished altogether.

Derivatives

  • immoralist

  • noun
    • Is it not the duty of governments to take action against immoralist philosophers who are undermining civilisation?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is enough to make even the boldest immoralist, male or female, doubt the dissidence of such aesthetic pleasures when so evidently an epistemological closet for other desires.
      • Although we may willfully turn away from what we conceive as good, that is an unnatural action; Augustine has nothing to say here to the immoralist or the debauchee.
      • Nietzsche does not investigate these matters of nomenclature, but when he is condemning morality or kinds of morality, and when he is calling himself an immoralist, he has the purpose and point of life in mind.
      • And since their version of the immoralist position departs in significant ways from its inspiration, it would be somewhat misleading to treat the Republic as a whole as a response to Thrasymachus.

Origin

Early 20th century: suggested by German Immoralismus.

Definition of immoralism in US English:

immoralism

nouniˈmôrəˌlizəm
  • A system of thought or behavior that does not accept moral principles.

    非道德主义,非道德论

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Despite the inconsistency, they think that Thrasymachus is ultimately advocating an immoralism since justice is defined as ‘another's good,’ i.e., the advantage of the stronger tyrant.
    • The extremism of Nietzsche's immoralism was in his proclaiming that morality could no longer be rooted in human nature, because in the future human nature would be transformed, if not abolished altogether.
    • She begins with a preliminary account of Plato's response to immoralism in the first two books of the Republic.
    • But his aesthetic immoralism remained in substance unchanged - it only bowed down before the rule of dogmatic Christianity.
    • Given what was said about immoralism, moralism must be advocating the pro tanto principle that a work is aesthetically good insofar as it is ethically good, but this does not determine its aesthetic value, all things considered.

Origin

Early 20th century: suggested by German Immoralismus.

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