This, not biblical absolutism, is ancient and traditional Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [Christine Wicker: Learning to Talk About God and Sex] Reference
What seems to be forgotten in such absolutism is what is lost in that pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Richard Thaler Responds to Critics of Libertarian Paternalism] Reference
I suspect that the federal courts absolutism is a response to the conservative tribunal absolutism. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » A Telling Slip on Detainees] Reference
But I tend to think that absolutism is still valid, and even necessary, in light of that perspective. From Wordnik.com. [But Will it Sell in Peoria?] Reference
When you get to the core of the argument, the question of relativism vs. absolutism is what the issue is about. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Bob Gibson opposes Amendment #1.] Reference
Similarly if it was vice-versa (though you might well be on firmer ground if you were arguing that the moral absolutism is itself ethically unsound). From Wordnik.com. [Ethics and Enthusiasm] Reference
You want to approach the situation from the perspective of absolutism, which isn't applicable to a liquid reality. From Wordnik.com. [Lowell Sun Forum] Reference
There is a kind of absolutism about Cheney which, in France, led the king to the guillotine. From Wordnik.com. [The Decider Puppet Has Lost a String] Reference
If it's "absolutism" to consistently oppose illegal activity by the government then so be it. From Wordnik.com. [Human Rights Groups: Obama's Policies Mimic The Bush Administration] Reference
Obama didn't defend Bush's illegalities, but now when he does the very same thing it is "absolutism". From Wordnik.com. [Human Rights Groups: Obama's Policies Mimic The Bush Administration] Reference
Stouts unfounded statements, her "absolutism" has no place in psychology, or study of human behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Reader reviews of The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout.] Reference
I would further add your comments along with those of Jeff amount to the same kind of absolutism the neocons embrace. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Liberalism in the United States] Reference
MacIntyre's point is not, therefore, to deny the reality of human rights in the name of some kind of absolutism; quite the contrary. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop - Religious Faith and Human Rights] Reference
This can sometimes be combined with a kind of absolutism to hold that intended harms are forbidden whereas the merely foreseen may not be. From Wordnik.com. [Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe] Reference
The thing I have issue with is this 'absolutism' which permeates shares like this. From Wordnik.com. Reference
But the absolutism is a lie in any case. From Wordnik.com. ["Why is Obama so vapid and hesitant and gutless? Why, to put it another way, does he risk going into political history as a dusky Dukakis?"] Reference
I can't tell you how sick of moral absolutism I am. From Wordnik.com. [Married, With Lies] Reference
Baran is no blind supporter of Kemalist absolutism. From Wordnik.com. [What's Going On With Turkey?] Reference
Again I find environmental absolutism a negative thing. From Wordnik.com. [A CONFLICT OF VALUES] Reference
Politically, pro-life absolutism has never made much sense. From Wordnik.com. [What Happened to Family Values?] Reference
Nigeria now must urgently search for an answer to such absolutism. From Wordnik.com. [A Religious Killing Spree] Reference
Still, she's not surprised that Offit's absolutism aggravates his critics. From Wordnik.com. [Stomping Through A Medical Minefield] Reference
Human nature is the same whether it is under democracy or under absolutism. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Swiss Immigrants] Reference
But the real problem with religious absolutism is not whether it is right or wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: How Hillary Clinton Would Govern] Reference
Roman life partake of this idea of absolutism; slavery is every where, liberty nowhere. From Wordnik.com. [Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?] Reference
The only discoverable road to liberty lay through absolutism, under a benevolent despot. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
We deny the right of revolution for the sake of oppression; because it leads to absolutism. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He will think, speak, act, and marry according to the understanding and limits of the paternal absolutism. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
The excesses of today's free-market absolutism are almost as bad as those of the big-government era they ended. From Wordnik.com. [The Evils Of Markets] Reference
How can one speak of a balance of powers, where there are but two forces -- foreign absolutism, and the people?. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
For now the triumph of absolutism and of Rizzio, as the Papal agent, was complete -- more so than Moray or Knox knew. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox] Reference
And their extremism, their absolutism in reaching their goals, actually makes it easier to use these mathematical models. From Wordnik.com. [CALCULUS FOR CATASTROPHE] Reference
Those who talk of state-absolutism are ignoring the simple truth that there is no tyranny like the tyranny of near neighbours. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
This battle harkens back to our Founders, children of the Enlightenment, when human reason overthrew blind belief and absolutism. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Abrams: "Fighting Extremism" Should Be Theme for Fall Campaign] Reference
The recent disparagement of intellectualism is probably a reaction against the extreme absolutism of German idealism which, beginning with. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
And the Segretario Reale went out from the presence, his soul revolting at the absolutism that forced him to accept; and he despised himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
Let us never be deceived: a free nation in the embrace of absolutism must, sooner or later, fall a prey to the cajoler's hypocrisy and greed. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
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