Sentences with 'moralistic'

Example sentences and phrases with the word moralistic and other words derived from it.

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« He was moralistic about the sex and divinity of emperors, instituting the policy that all oaths had to be swords to the emperor's divinity. »
« It is safe to assume that many more rulers have consulted The Prince for ideas on how to maintain their power over the years than one of Machiavelli's favourite moralistic treatises during his lifetime. »
« Rousseau's concept of a moralistic and fanatical government, justified by a "general will" of the people, was to become one of the ideological foundations of the French Revolution that began just a decade after his death. »
« In the process, Machiavelli created what was arguably the first work of "political science" that abandoned the moralistic approach of how a ruler should behave as a good Christian and instead adopted a practical guide to maintaining power. »

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