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absolutism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | totalism, totalitarianism |
| Type of | political orientation, political theory, ideology |
| Derivation | absolutist, absolutistic |
absolutism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | authoritarianism, caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
| Type of | autarchy, autocracy |
| Has types | police state |
| Derivation | absolutist, absolutistic |
absolutism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | despotism, tyranny |
| Type of | ascendency, control, dominance, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence |
| Derivation | absolutist |
absolutism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | school of thought, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, doctrine |
Examples of absolutism
absolutism
However, historians debate the actual implementation of enlightened absolutism.
From the en.wikipedia.org
As such, we move from relativism and embrace absolutism, from truths to the truth.
From the newsobserver.com
The split took place when Camus took issue with the absolutism of revolutions.
From the nytimes.com
However some of his ambitions were fulfilled by the victory of absolutism in 1660.
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As a sign of French absolutism, they ceased to be convoked from 1614 to 1789.
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Ultra-royalists were interested in preserving aristocracy and promoting absolutism.
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Taiwan and Japan, uncomfortably close to a ruthless oligarchical absolutism.
From the economist.com
My comment about morality and absolutism in general were directed at djvanderhoeven.
From the forbes.com
I question her absolutism, her Manichaean view of the world, but I admire her courage.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Dominance through threat of punishment and violence
- Dictatorship: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
- The principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
- The doctrine of an absolute being
- (absolutist) one who advocates absolutism
- 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. ...
- (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. ...
- 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.
- 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. ...
