Meaning of absolutism in English
- He was a thinker whose theories were strangely compounded of absolutism and democracy.
- Nationalities founded upon the principles of absolutism, embody and express the same laws and conditions.
- Now the power of absolutism was broken.
- Then psychology aspired to be a philosophy of real existence, and attacked both absolutism and materialism.
- We are far from any thoughts of democracy in the early struggles against the absolutism of the Crown.
absolutism | Intermediate English
Examples of absolutism
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This is not "free speech absolutism" or even a pure standard for campus decision makers to apply.
From Washington Post
This moral absolutism is the far more common type; it is also the type that lacks the virtue of sincerity.
From Foreign Policy
We can not mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.
From Politico
Will a party richly marinated in philosophical debate and, sometimes, uncompromising absolutism follow a leader with few fixed philosophical moorings?
From The Denver Post
Market absolutism is the essence of hierarchical totalitarianism and neo-feudalism.
From ThinkProgress
He lives in a world of absolutism and delusion, with rules of his own devising, where people exist to serve his desires and commemorate his accomplishments.
From ESPN
Justifications are generally grounded in either maximizing consequentialism or deontological absolutism, or in their derivatives and variants.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Moreover, there is clearly a need for more explicit attention to elitism and absolutism as constitutive of conservative philosophy wherever and whatever its manifestation.
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Their argument is in essence identical to the argument from absolutism.
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All this is proof that the inventory of resources had become inseparable from the control of a unified area, favored by both absolutism and mercantilism.
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It is of an inter-guaranteeing, and, consequently, inter-limiting, and in this aspect the negation of absolutism.
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It is an absolutism because it denies that a certain consideration, voluntary harm to self, is ever a reason at all for criminalizing.
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That, and that we are disturbed by the absolutism and the immovability of death.
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The argument from absolutism is not at all uncommon in the debate around the precautionary principle.
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This is, as we have seen, a way around the argument from absolutism.
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