Absolutism

The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
- The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. - Palfrey

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Absolutism may refer to:

Government

Absolute monarchy, in which a monarch rules free of laws or legally organized opposition; especially in the period c. 1610 – c. 1789 in Europe
- Enlightened absolutism, influenced by the Enlightenment (18th- and early 19th-century Europe)
Autocracy, or "political absolutism", a political theory which argues that one person should hold all power

Moral absolutism, the belief in absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged, regardless of context
Graded absolutism, the view that a moral absolute, such as "Do not kill", can be greater or lesser than another moral absolute, such as "Do not lie"

Absolute (philosophy), an objective and unconditioned reality said to underlie perceived objects
Absolute idealism, an ontologically monistic philosophy attributed to G.W.F. Hegel
Absolute space, a theory that space exists absolutely; contrast with relationalism

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