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/ˈabsəlo͞oˌtizəm/,
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The acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters,
  1. The acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters

  1. dominance through threat of punishment and violence
  2. dictatorship: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
  3. the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
  4. the doctrine of an absolute being
  5. (absolutist) one who advocates absolutism
  6. Absolutism or The Age of Absolutism (c. 1610 - c.1789) is a historiographical term used to describe a form of monarchical power that is unrestrained by all other institutions, such as churches, legislatures, or social elites. ...
  7. (Absolutists) Moral absolutism is the ethical view that certain actions are absolutely right or wrong, regardless of other contexts such as their consequences or the intentions behind them. ...
  8. Absolutist systems do not permit any exception to certain ethical principles. The champion of all absolutists, philosopher Emmanuel Kant, declared that the ethical act was one that the doer was willing to have stand as a universal principle.
  9. As a political theory, absolutism is typically a synonym for despotism. As an ethical theory, it can be contrasted with relativism. An absolutist would assert that there is one correct approach to the moral life, across persons and cultures. ...
  10. In general, the view that there are no exceptions to a rule. In moral philosophy, such a position maintains that actions of a specific sort are always right (or wrong) independently of any further considerations, thus rejecting the consequentialist effort to evaluate them by their outcomes. ...
  11. The belief in a value or good that always holds its value. Expressed by the ancient stoics "Let justice be done though the heavens fall." Absolutism as an ethical theory is contrasted to relativism.
  12. A political system in which legislative and executive authority is vested in the person of the sovereign, with little or no role for democratic representation.
  13. The theory popular in France and other early modern European monarchies that royal power should be free of constitutional checks. (p. 452)
  14. The doctrine that there is one explanation of all reality-the absolute-that is unchanging and objectively true. Absolutists (such as G. W. F. Hegel) hold that this absolute, such as God or mind, is eternal and that in it all seeming differences are reconciled.
  15. a belief that there are some basic universal ideas that are true, not to be doubted or questioned.
  16. belief in form of government where one person or group of people has unlimited power
  17. Absolutism in metaphysics is the view that the most real things (essences or Forms or God) are fixed, unchanging, and the same for all persons and cultures. Hence absolutism is often called essentialism. The "really real" is basically static and unchanging. ...
  18. The view that there is only one correct answer to every moral problem; truth is objectively real, final, and eternal.
  19. an ethical system according to which ethical norms are established by a transcendent source.
  20. The claim that not only are moral principles objective but also they cannot be overridden and there cannot be any exceptions to them.
  21. growth in absolute and centralized power of the national government and the monarchy, this age in European history is generally called the Age of Absolutism (1660-1789). It begins in the reign of Louis XIV and ends with the French Revolution.