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'Absolutism' can mean:

★ Absolute truth, the contention that in a particular domain of thought, all statements in that domain are either absolutely true or absolutely false

★ Absolutism (European history), a period in European history starting in the 16th century. It is characterized by the end of the feudal balance, consolidation of power in the monarch, rise of the unified state, and decrease in influence of nobility.

★ 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 good or evil, regardless of the context of the act

★ Autocracy (also known as 'political absolutism'), a political theory which argues that one person should hold all power

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★ Absolute monarchy, a form of government where the monarch has the power to rule their land freely, with no laws or legally-organized direct opposition in force

★ a theory of space (see Philosophy of space and time#Absolutism vs. relationalism) holding that space exists absolutely, in contrast to relationalism, which holds that space exists only as relations between objects