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Absolutism

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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