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absolutist 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. one who advocates absolutism
  2. pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism
  3. (absolutism) dominance through threat of punishment and violence
  4. (absolutism) dictatorship: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
  5. (absolutism) the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
  6. (absolutism) the doctrine of an absolute being
  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. (Absolutism (European history)) 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. ...
  9. (absolutism) The view that there is only one correct answer to every moral problem; truth is objectively real, final, and eternal.
  10. (Absolutism) 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. ...
  11. (ABSOLUTISM) 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.
  12. (68. absolutism) belief in form of government where one person or group of people has unlimited power
  13. (Absolutism) 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.
  14. (Absolutism) The claim that not only are moral principles objective but also they cannot be overridden and there cannot be any exceptions to them.
  15. (Absolutism) a belief that there are some basic universal ideas that are true, not to be doubted or questioned.
  16. (Absolutism) an ethical system according to which ethical norms are established by a transcendent source.
  17. (Absolutism) 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.
  18. (absolutism) 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 ...
  19. (absolutism) The theory popular in France and other early modern European monarchies that royal power should be free of constitutional checks. (p. 452)
  20. 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. ...