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Definition of Amoralism
1. Noun. The doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid.
Derivative terms: Amoralist
Definition of Amoralism
1. Noun. (philosophy) Doctrine which advocates ignoring moral issues and norms. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amoralism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amoralism
Literary usage of Amoralism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1922)
"It is clear, then, that Heine had none of that Nietzschean or Machiavellian
amoralism with which he has at times been mistakenly associated. ..."
2. Heredity and Selection in Sociology by Georges Chatterton-Hill (1907)
"The increase in the suicide-rate of Europe being due to the amoralism which
characterises social life, and this amoralism being but the result of an ..."
3. European Dramatists by Archibald Henderson (1913)
"... springing phoenix-like from the ashes of universal illusionism, the relativity
of the concepts of good and evil, the fundamental amoralism of Nature. ..."
4. Philosophy of Law by Josef Kohler, Adalbert Albrecht (1914)
"... the age imposes on this romantic amoralism.27 Considered as a whole, the
position with the closest affinity to Kohler's is probably that of Nietzsche. ..."
5. The Social Problem: A Reconstructive Analysis by Charles Abram Ellwood (1919)
"... and exploitation, it has ended in such absolute social negations as the
amoralism of Nietzsche and the exaltation of 4 A violence by Syndicalism. ..."
6. Diderot as a Disciple of English Thought by Robert Loyalty Cru (1913)
"... and he always was more or less irritated by the amoralism of Hobbes and
Mandeville, although it was the logical consequence of a materialism to which he ..."
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