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Absolutism - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Stalinism, Autarchy, Authoritarianism, Authority, Autocracy, Bondage, Control, Despotism, Dictatorship, Domination, Enslavement

The term absolutism can mean:

  • A belief in absolute truth
  • moral absolutism, the belief that there is some absolute standard of right and wrong
  • political absolutism, a political system where one person holds absolute power, also called apolytarchy from Gr. "apolytos" - "absolute" and "-archE" - "authority".
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Example Usage of Absolutism
atheistyogi: @pschlenker My question is about moral Absolutism actually...where it comes from and how it's known.
mrbolos: The Way to Absolutism http://post.ly/CtyC
SuchALady: seem absurd. people with no stake in a given issue are usually prone to Absolutism, get raped, call the cops, then tell me you hate them.
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