| 词汇 | absolutism |
| 释义 | absolutism noun[ U ] politics specializeduk /ˈæb.sə.luː.tɪ.zəm/ us /ˈæb.sə.luː.t̬ɪ.zəm/ a political system in which a single ruler, group, or political party has complete power over a country专制政体;专制制度;专制主义 Systems of government advanced capitalism ancien régime anti-apartheid anti-communism anti-federalist democratic democratically democratization democratize despotic kakistocracy kleptocracy kleptocratic majority rule martial law plutocratic police state post-apartheid pre-fascist pure democracy He was a thinker whose theories were strangely compounded of absolutism and democracy. Nationalities founded upon the principles of absolutism, embody and express the same laws and conditions. Now the power of absolutism was broken. Then psychology aspired to be a philosophy of real existence, and attacked both absolutism and materialism. We are far from any thoughts of democracy in the early struggles against the absolutism of the Crown. absolutism | American Dictionaryabsolutism noun[ U ] us/ˌæb·səˈluˌt̬ɪz·əm/ politics & government a political system in which a single leader controls all branches of government and has authority over everyone and everything in the country Examples of absolutismabsolutism For their productivity mission, and thus for imposing managerial absolutism, employers also relied on the sweeping offensive and sympathy lockouts. That, and that we are disturbed by the absolutism and the immovability of death. This too was a consequence of absolutism as now understood. But this would subvert his bourgeois standpoint in general, and especially his position as the defender of absolutism. The argument from absolutism obviously bites if the precautionary principle is thought of as prescribing measures that are precautionary with respect to everything. Fifteen years of revisionist historiography have accustomed us to dismiss such complexity and, in particular, the language of absolutism from our vocabulary. There could hardly be a clearer illustration of the fundamental flaw of hereditary absolutism. Their argument is in essence identical to the argument from absolutism. It is an absolutism because it denies that a certain consideration, voluntary harm to self, is ever a reason at all for criminalizing. It is of an interguaranteeing, and, consequently, inter-limiting, and in this aspect the negation of absolutism. As we would expect in a collective enterprise, some authors veer towards generalisation, for example by confining themselves to the familiar territory of enlightened absolutism. Since his time absolutism and pessimistic anthropology have been inseparable. Seeking an alternative authority to absolutism and religion, liberals seized upon utilitarianism as a modern philosophy capable of giving them the intellectual credibility they wanted. This is, as we have seen, a way around the argument from absolutism. It is also likely that the former will tend to endorse moral absolutism and the latter moral relativism. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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