Absolutism

Absolutism may refer to:

Government

 * Absolutism (European history), period c. 1610 – c. 1789 in Europe
 * Enlightened absolutism, influenced by the Enlightenment (18th- and early 19th-century Europe)
 * Absolute monarchy, in which a monarch rules free of laws or legally organized opposition
 * Autocracy, a political theory which argues that one person should hold all power
 * Tsarist autocracy, is a form of autocracy (later absolute monarchy) specific to Russia

General philosophy

 * Absolutism, the view that facts are absolute rather than merely relative (sometimes called "universality")

Ethics

 * Moral absolutism, the belief in absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged, regardless of context
 * Graded absolutism, the view that a moral absolute, such as "Do not kill", can be greater or lesser than another moral absolute, such as "Do not lie"

Hegelian philosophy

 * Absolute (philosophy), the Hegelian concept of an objective and unconditioned reality, said to underlie perceived objects
 * Absolute idealism, an ontologically monistic philosophy attributed to G. W. F. Hegel

Physics

 * Absolute theory, in physics
 * Absolute space, a theory that space exists absolutely; contrast with relationalism

Psychology

 * Splitting (psychology), also called black-and-white thinking or all-or-nothing thinking