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      • absolutism, moral. The view that certain kinds of actions are always wrong or are always obligatory, whatever the consequences. Typical candidates for such absolute principles would be that it is always wrong deliberately to kill an innocent human being, or that one ought always to tell the truth or to keep one's promises.
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  3. academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 34508Absolutism | The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political ...

    Absolutism is a nineteenth-century term designed precisely to address the mismatch between doctrine and power. The intellectual resources of absolutism were far older than the Renaissance and Reformation.

  4. link.springer.com › referenceworkentry › 10Ethical Absolutism vs. Ethical Relativism | SpringerLink

    Nov 22, 2023 · Ethical absolutism is a position which argues for the existence of objective values and intrinsically moral acts. As such there can exist moral principles which are always valid and correct. Ethical relativism is a position that holds that moral values are relative to some further instance.

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  6. academic.oup.com › book › 35341Absolutism and Relativism | Everything, more or less: A ...

    1.1 Absolutism. To a first approximation, absolutism about quantifiers is the view that sometimes—when subject to no explicit or tacit restrictions—quantifiers such as ‘everything’ or ∀ x range over an absolutely comprehensive domain. 1 The key notion stands in need of explanation.

  7. www.jstor.org › stable › 2103988Ethical Absolutism and the Ideal Observer - JSTOR

    1. It is absolutist. To explain the precise sense in which a dispositional analysis of ethical statements may be absolutist rather than relativist, it is helpful to begin by defining the two terms "relative statement" and "relativist analysis."

  8. www.cambridge.org › core › booksAbsolutism and royalism (Chapter 12) - The Cambridge History ...

    The meaning of absolutism. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the main tenets of absolutist and royalist thinking in the seventeenth century. That century, we are often told, saw the making of absolutism, especially in France.

  9. www.oxfordreference.com › abstract › 10Absolutism, moral - Oxford Reference

    absolutism, moral. The view that certain kinds of actions are always wrong or are always obligatory, whatever the consequences. Typical candidates for such absolute principles would be that it is always wrong deliberately to kill an innocent human being, or that one ought always to tell the truth or to keep one's promises.

  10. www.oed.com › dictionary › absolutism_nabsolutism noun - Oxford English Dictionary

    There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun absolutism. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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