The satisfaction derived from this act was all that the most ardent moralist could have desired.
He is a paradoxical aesthete as well as a paradoxical moralist.
As he grew old, he turned into a crusty Confucian moralist .
He is a contradictory aestheticism, and at the same time, he is a contradictory moralist.
Both as a writer and as a moralist, he regarded the exploration of abstract forms and ideas as dubious, valuing messy humanity instead.
So you can see in that passage Hobbes takes himself to be a moralist writing within the great tradition of moral philosophy.
"Classic and romantic, wise and iconoclast, light and serious, sentimental and moralist, he created the 'Rohmer' style, which will outlive him," Sarkozy said in a statement.
