Absolutism: Encyclopedia - Absolutism

Absolutism can mean: Absolutism (see Absolute truth), the contention that in a particular domain of thought, all statements in that domain are either absolutely true or absolutely false Enlightened absolutism, a term used to describe the actions of absolute rulers who were influenced by the Enlightenment (eighteenth and early nineteenth century Europe) Moral absolutism, the position that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged, and that certain actions are right or wrong,

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