#universalism
- Absolutism — 1. A political regime characterized by the total and unrestricted concentration of power in the hands of a single sovereign (monarch); autocracy. 2. In moral philosophy and ethics (ethical absolutism), a doctrine or stance holding that moral standards, values, and norms are objective, universal, eternal, and immutable, being applicable to all people across all cultures and historical eras, in direct opposition to relativism.
- Absolutist — 1. A person who supports, promotes, or applies the principles of political or ethical absolutism. 2. Adjective characterizing an autocratic political regime, a doctrine opposed to relativism, or an inflexible attitude. In moral philosophy, proponents of an absolutist stance consider ethical norms to be objective and universally valid, rejecting the idea that truth or virtue depends on context, culture, or social utility.
- Absolutism (spelling variant) — A rare, alternative, or partially obsolete spelling variant of the noun 'absolutism', occasionally found in transitional Romanian texts under the direct influence of German or Slavic phonetics, or East European transliterations of the suffix '-ismus'. Conceptually, it retains the ethical and political nuance of the unrestricted concentration of power or the axiological dogmatism proclaiming the existence of fixed, universal, and immutable values.
- Apocatastasis — A theological and eschatological doctrine, originally attributed to Origen, which asserts the ultimate and universal restoration of all conscious creatures to their initial state of divine perfection; the final reconciliation of the world with God, implying the ultimate salvation of all humans and even demons, thus rejecting the idea of eternal damnation. In a general philosophical sense, it represents the periodic return of the cosmos to its primordial pure state.