One problem with absolutism about honesty is that it drives the moralist into a kind of dishonesty of her own. |
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They were opposed by a Conservative party, which supported royal absolutism and bureaucratic centralism. |
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In the very act of rejecting hierarchies of value, relativism constructs a hierarchy, which values its own relativism above any absolutism. |
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After 1945, World War II was conceptualized here as a crusade against absolutism and intolerance. |
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Yet the German nation did not succeed in shaking off the yoke of absolutism and in establishing democracy and parliamentary government. |
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At the heart of Schiller's play, written two years before the French Revolution, lies a confrontation between absolutism and liberty. |
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At its core, this is an argument that absolutism should always be met with absolutism, a notion that I think is wildly mistaken. |
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As we have seen, Richardson follows the Whig propagandistic practice of conflating tyranny and absolutism. |
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It seemed as if the military and financial power of absolutism excluded every possibility of a revolution in Russia. |
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As Europe basked in the Enlightenment, Popish superstition and its stablemate monarchical absolutism appeared to be receding into the past. |
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There is still a recognizable contrast with the European experience on the continent, with absolutism and enlightened despotism. |
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The linchpin of my argument is the distinction between absolutism, relativism, and pluralism. |
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Locke's political ideas reflect the alliance of classes that jointly opposed the drive to absolutism in mid and late seventeenth century England. |
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The result is that the moral absolutism claimed by legal categorizations are avoided and the validity of both sides is maintained. |
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In other words, modernity has become critical of modernism and of its own utopian absolutism. |
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When will we get effective political pushback against Hollywood's absolutism on copyright? |
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Thus papal absolutism and Spanish absolutism, secular and ecclesiastical power, grew ever more complementary and interdependent. |
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Certainly, there was the occasional despot who aspired to religious absolutism. |
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The ambiguities resurface in an image of absolutism where obvious falsity and artificiality signify an unworldly godliness. |
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Benedict's experience of Nazism led him to a fear not of absolutism but of totalitarianism, in which authority and truth are divorced. |
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Political reforms in 18th century Spain were carried out under monarchial absolutism. |
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However, the distinction here is between absolutism and relativism, not between absolutism and relationalism. |
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Nor should it be thought that Marx's defence of democratic rights only extended to countries in which there was feudal absolutism. |
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After all, what lies at the heart of European absolutism or Russian autocracy? |
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The real heroes of the piece are the overthinking absurdists whose apparently humorous pranks stemmed from an eternally uncompromising absolutism. |
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In the endless right-to-life debate, compromise is difficult for pro-lifers because the strength of their side of the argument comes from its absolutism. |
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There never was a golden age of First Amendment textualism or absolutism in American history, even if you limit the First Amendment to Congressional power. |
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If you challenge the subjectivity of judgment, you are accused of absolutism, which is about as bad as believing in monarchism or the persecution of witches. |
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Certainly they would be better off under a reformist government, rather than the smothering absolutism of the oligarchy. |
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In this revolutionary rendering of the ultimacy of human being and the human world is born the spirit of absolutism, the soul of ultra-modernist culture. |
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Thus we see evil as being inextricably linked to moral absolutism, by the route of religion, which excludes understanding and is ultimately oppressive. |
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It was the handicraftsmen, like the other petty bourgeois of the towns, who displayed an exceptionally revolutionary spirit in the era of the fall of absolutism. |
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But once in power the proletariat had to go beyond the bourgeois-democratic tasks posed by the abolition of tsarist absolutism. |
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What are some great works of literature that you admire for their ability to combat dictatorship and absolutism? |
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In this new climate anything less than anti-abortion absolutism is unacceptable. |
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The rejectionist absolutism of Morris and others is simplistic, a-historical, full of inaccuracies and arrogantly one-sided. |
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This absolutism is wrong in principle, and it's also bad politics. |
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This arrogant spirit of ontological absolutism pervades his essay. |
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It is not moral absolutism but theological relativism we would do well to explore if our real need is for a God with whom we can engage our lives. |
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Thus it is that the growth of technical means tending to absolutism forbids the appearance of values and condemns to sterility our search for the ethical and the spiritual. |
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The moral absolutism that was invoked by the proponents of intervention as a substitute for rational argument can no longer be sustained. |
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It involves the rejection of dogmatism and absolutism and affirms the standards set out in international human rights instruments. |
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I would be just as opposed to the school promoting the doctrine of moral relativism as being superior to any religious absolutism. |
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But the very liberties of the Empire made possible results which no absolutism could foresee. |
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It smacks of absolutism, in my view, to proscribe the discussion of constitutional matters by the Heads of State or Government. |
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The spirit of Prussian absolutism dominating the people of the German Empire regards any such form of Government as weak and ineffective. |
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Indeed, it was the cradle of Jansenists who were opposed to the absolutism of royal power. |
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There is but one way to deal effectively with the Prussian gospel of force and violence and the Prussian ideal of absolutism. |
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Arbitrariness, absolutism and human degradation are not on the path to extinction. |
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This is self-government committing economic suicide, putting ideological absolutism ahead of solving problems. |
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It is generally customary to consider the doctrine largely in connection with those states which have been proponents of power, autocracy, and absolutism. |
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The growing independence of the state was expressed as French absolutism and English parliamentarianism. |
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She excruciates you in the manner of one of your teenage children who simultaneously drive you up the wall and yet, through their truculent absolutism, remind you of what is lost in middle-aged compromise. |
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Moreover, there has been evident in Germany during the past quarter of a century a rising spirit of democracy which has brought inquietude to the ruling oligarchy and to those who are devoted to the principles of absolutism. |
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He was determined to help establish liberal values and institutions — civil society, free speech, democratic norms — in a land that, for a thousand years, had known only absolutism, empire, and the knout. |
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When, in the latter half of the 16th century, the Mughal emperor Akbar in India wanted to arrogate to himself the right of administrative legal absolutism, the strong reaction of the orthodox thwarted his attempt. |
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Indeed, for the next two years it floundered from one scheme to another in the impossible hope of squaring the circle of modernistic reform, popular hostility, respect of privilege, and the preservation of royal absolutism. |
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In the first discussion Libby explains why most Americans, and most Europeans view moral absolutism with alarm. |
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England headed towards liberty, France towards absolutism. |
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To refer it to a further authority itself unlimited, would be just to relocate the seat of absolute sovereignty, a position entirely consistent with Hobbes's insistence on absolutism. |
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The second was the absolutism of her vision. |
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The republican revolution drove out the last emperor whilst leaving intact the principle of absolutism, deeply rooted in Chinese cultural tradition. |
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So, my more concrete proposal would be that to find a way to nurture the kind of deliberative thinking that avoids the trap of absolutism and relativism. |
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It's evident that our investigation into whether mystical states have common characteristics is empirical. We cannot expect any universal absolutism as in mathematical models? |
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A slow recovery will occur only following the initiation of the reforms of enlightened absolutism, but a real rise will occur only with the fall of Este government and with the proclamation of the Republic Cispadana. |
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Value-pluralism is an alternative to moral absolutism and differs also from value-relativism in that pluralism imposes limits to differences, such as when vital human needs or rights are violated. |
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He was the musical representative of the final splendour of absolutism shortly before dawn which brought the radical changes of the French Revolution. |
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It was the absolutism of his ambition to be a perfect writer that imperiled him. |
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Under this new constitution, monarchical absolutism was replaced by parliamentary supremacy. |
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Thus he and his followers resisted political absolutism and paved the way for the rise of modern democracy. |
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However, although he is often connected with absolutism, Bodin held some moderate opinions on how government should in practice be carried out. |
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There is a considerable variety of opinion by historians on the extent of absolutism among European monarchs. |
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This tradition of absolutism, known as Tsarist autocracy, was expanded by Catherine II the Great and her descendants. |
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However, the concept of absolutism was so ingrained in Russia that the Russian Constitution of 1906 still described the Tsar as an autocrat. |
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In this way, he and his followers stood in the vanguard of resistance to political absolutism and furthered the cause of democracy. |
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Tsarist absolutism faced few serious challenges until the late 19th century. |
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In this way, Calvin and his followers resisted political absolutism and furthered the growth of democracy. |
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Law was what the sovereign commanded, and this meant absolutism, but it was an absolutism of law as impartial and impersonal. |
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In Manuel's reign, royal absolutism was the method of government. |
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Ruling princes often endorsed and fostered these figures and even attempted to apply their ideas of government in what was known as enlightened absolutism. |
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He was intrigued by Britain's constitutional monarchy in contrast to French absolutism, and by the country's greater support of the freedoms of speech and religion. |
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In 1653 the Diet of Brandenburg met for the last time and gave Frederick William the power to raise taxes without its consent, a strong indicator of absolutism. |
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Michael Zuckert has argued that Locke launched liberalism by tempering Hobbesian absolutism and clearly separating the realms of Church and State. |
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Reform was gradual and the regime itself carried out agrarian reforms that had the effect of weakening absolutism by creating a class of independent peasant freeholders. |
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Instead, skepticism and noncognitivism in ethics may well give rise to less moral absolutism and ideology and, as a result, to less violence and oppression. |
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It rejoices in mongrelization and fears the absolutism of the Pure. |
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The final section relates the themes Forby has set in motion to contemporary issues as King James's absolutism, memories of the Essex rebellion, and Prince Henry's patronage. |
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