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Foot pooh-poohed what she called the "rigoristic, prissy, moralistic tone" so frequent in moral philosophy, and the way it had lost touch with real life.
Philippa Foot obituary Jane O'Grady 2010
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That is a problem today, when the swing of the cultural pendulum has made easy universalism more common than the old rigoristic exclusivism.
More fire and brimstone, please Mike L 2007
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That is a problem today, when the swing of the cultural pendulum has made easy universalism more common than the old rigoristic exclusivism.
Archive 2007-01-01 Mike L 2007
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It is said that Kant is too rigoristic, that he makes too stern a business of morality, in speaking so much of law and so little of love and spontaneity.
The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916
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This commentary is an attack upon the rigoristic interpretation of the rule by Abbot Rancé of La
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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This proceding and the fact that the Council of Carthage had decided with so much moderation in regard to the lapsi, modifying as it did the rigoristic policy of Cyprian by a judicious compromise, soon detached from Felicissimus all his followers, and the schism disappeared.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Nominalistic subtleties, coupled with an austere pseudo-Augustinism of the ultra-rigoristic type, made Gregory of Rimini the precursor of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Because of the stress they laid on the rigoristic element in St. Augustine's doctrine on grace, they were for a time suspected of Baianism and Jansenism, but were cleared of this suspicion by Benedict XIV.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Harnack himself owns that Christ had no relations with this rigoristic sect, as was shown by His mixing freely with sinners, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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[Sidenote] _The rigoristic negation, and the pedagogic justification of art.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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