Editing Absolutism

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'''Absolutism''' may refer to:
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==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

==Philosophy==
===General philosophy===
* [[Universality (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
** [[Philosophy of space and time#Absolutism and relationalism|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

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