absolutism

How To Use absolutism In A Sentence

• But in the patriarchal absolutism of a military monarchy, militarism exploits politics to further its own ends, and can create a situation which a democracy freed from junkerdom would not tolerate. History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War
• It is generally customary to consider the doctrine largely in connection with those states which have been proponents of power, autocracy, and absolutism.
• So whatever is meant by “absolutism” is antonymous to relativism.
• Few today would hold any brief for a theory, such as Bodin's, serving to justify absolutism.
• Benedict's experience of Nazism led him to a fear not of absolutism but of totalitarianism, in which authority and truth are divorced.
• It argues that this early Muslim republicanism was swept away by the subsequent caliphs, beginning with the Umayyads and extending to the Ottomans, who preferred to rule by force and to make claims to absolutism in politics.
• If you challenge the subjectivity of judgment, you are accused of absolutism, which is about as bad as believing in monarchism or the persecution of witches.
• But while the critics and doctrinaires were contending thus variously about the merits of Schiller, his name endeared itself more and more to the many who were chafing under the régime of princely absolutism and were longing for a freer Germany. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
• The thing is, being a fundamentalist about scriptural inerrancy or 'absolutism' - I've been reading Robin Gill isn't finally about our view of the Bible. There Is No Slippery Slope
• Since the 1960s there has been a marked shift from moral absolutism to relativism.