0 a political system in which a single ruler, group, or political party has complete power over a country --
1 a political system in which a single leader controls all branches of government and has authority over everyone and everything in the country --
It is also likely that the former will tend to endorse moral absolutism and the latter moral relativism.
This is, as we have seen, a way around the argument from absolutism.
Seeking an alternative authority to absolutism and religion, liberals seized upon utilitarianism as a modern philosophy capable of giving them the intellectual credibility they wanted.
Since his time absolutism and pessimistic anthropology have been inseparable.
As we would expect in a collective enterprise, some authors veer towards generalisation, for example by confining themselves to the familiar territory of enlightened absolutism.
It is of an interguaranteeing, and, consequently, inter-limiting, and in this aspect the negation of absolutism.
It is an absolutism because it denies that a certain consideration, voluntary harm to self, is ever a reason at all for criminalizing.
Their argument is in essence identical to the argument from absolutism.