Amber (ethnocentric, mythic): The Amber Altitude began about 5,000 years ago, and indicates a worldview that is traditionalist and mythic in nature—and mythic worldviews are almost always held as absolute (this stage of development is often called absolutistic).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-23] Reference

Not all government is bad… that would be absolutistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Fox Responds To Limbaugh Claim That He’s ‘Cruel’ For Creating ‘False Hopes’ About Stem Cells] Reference

Concretely, one may take the absolutistic attitude toward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

Not all government is bad… that would be absolutistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Fox Responds To Limbaugh Claim That He’s ‘Cruel’ For Creating ‘False Hopes’ About Stem Cells] Reference

Actually, Roger, there are other, less barbaric and absolutistic options….    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Former Bush Speechwriter: UN Speech Represents ‘The Collapse of the President’s Iran Policy’] Reference

Kantian views are frequently absolutistic in their objections to paternalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paternalism] Reference

That temporally disastrous consequence is, from an absolutistic point of view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

The sorry repercussions of embracing superhumanism-a new absolutistic faith - are everywhere to be seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [He who says speciesism says fascism-] Reference

But the spirit of the Roman empire was too absolutistic to abandon the prerogative of a supervision of public worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

But the single moral course is clear; there is no alternative; in absolutistic morals there are no extenuating circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

The acceptance of Buddhism by rulers in the Far East always meant also an attempt to create a more autocratic, absolutistic regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

It is perhaps not surprising that absolutistic assumptions about life and its meaning were not part of Barack Obama's own upbringing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Robert Aziz: Mind the Leadership Gap: Why it should have been called the White House Office of Goodwill Neighborhood Partnerships] Reference

What concerns us in this connection, however, is the nature of this absolutistic conception, and its bearings on the governance of human conduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

~ BLOG: Meta-Genius: A Celebration of Ken's Writings Part 3 -- A Celebration of Ken is dysfunctional green, or extreme and absolutistic pluralism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speedlinking 5/31/07] Reference

Their twisted absolutistic thinking is all about punishing perceived rule breakers, while they break the largest rules of all and hide it or lie about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOP congressman chides the 'hard right'] Reference

More to the point, we are far more likely to find devout creationists centered at absolutistic DQ-Blue and devout evolutionists centered at multiplistic ER-Orange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Involution / Evolution] Reference

In its emphasis on the autonomy and integrity of moral action, even its opponents credit the Kantian or absolutistic position with having hit upon a genuinely moral aspect of human action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

The Kantian or absolutistic position, by its emphasis on the indefeasible and unwavering character of moral action, suggests something that rouses admiration from common sense, unsophisticated by moral theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

Here we have a non-absolutistic religious doctrine, considered meaningful from a variety of vantage points, with an ethical dimension and an aesthetic immediacy, which is not in clear conflict with scientific understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: November 1999 Archives] Reference

In your usual absolutistic view of things, you cannot understand that no system is perfect, or that it is simply a stage until it becomes corrupted and a society seeks something – usually drastic – to counter balance that corruption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Pentagon official resigns over detainee remarks.] Reference

Morality, absolutistic; and art; and education; and emotion; and habit; and human nature; and intellectualism; and law; based on instincts; customary; empirical; inadequacy of theory in; intuitional; reflective; relativistic and teleological; spontaneous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

The principle of the "equality before the law" which the Legalists had advocated and which fitted well into the absolutistic, totalitarian system of the Ch'in, had been attacked by the feudal nobility at that time and was attacked by the new gentry of the Han time.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

Many have discerned absolutistic and apophatic tendencies in Candrakîrti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference

It is the absolutistic brand, spurning the dust and reared upon pure logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatism] Reference

People in the West are accustomed in relativistic rather than absolutistic thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

History shows how easily both quietists and fanatics have drawn inspiration from the absolutistic scheme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

The more absolutistic philosophers dwell on so high a level of abstraction that they never even try to come down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatism] Reference

It means a real change of heart, a break with absolutistic hopes, when one takes up this inductive view of the conditions of belief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

The ideas advanced in the work, being in thorough accord with the absolutistic tendencies of civil rulers, were eagerly accepted by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

The absolutistic hypothesis, that perfection is eternal, aboriginal, and most real, has a perfectly definite meaning, and it works religiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatism] Reference

Using our old terms of comparison, we may say that the absolutistic scheme appeals to the tender-minded while the pluralistic scheme appeals to the tough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatism] Reference

I suspect some of my earlier posts have come off as absolutistic and negative to non-missional (and pseudo-missional) models, but I do actually see each model as having its own strengths and challenges.    From Wordnik.com.  [futuristguy] Reference

That’s pretty much absolutistic and condescending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Haggard Confesses: ‘I Am a Deciever and a Liar’] Reference

But, I’m guessing your divine is more traditaional, and explains why you see things in such absolutistic tones, when I do not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » McCain and Lieberman Express Support For Sending More Troops to Iraq] Reference

Nancy Pelosi’s statement that we can’t drill our way to energy independence is one of the absolutistic political rhetorical statements that results in a paralysis of doing anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congress Faces Gas, Energy Issues - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Nor can the Bahá’í Administrative Order be dismissed as a hard and rigid system of unmitigated autocracy or as an idle imitation of any form of absolutistic ecclesiastical government, whether it be the Papacy, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh] Reference

"I started getting invitations from churches that were not as extremely absolutistic as I was, and it made me uncomfortable.    From Wordnik.com.  [LA IMC] Reference