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ABSOLUTISM

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 76 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABSOLUTISM , in See also:

aesthetics, a See also:term applied to the theory that beauty is an See also:objective attribute of things, not merely a subjective feeling of See also:pleasure in him who perceives. It follows that there is an See also:absolute See also:standard of the beautiful by which all See also:objects can be judged. The fact that, in practice, the judgments even of connoisseurs are perpetually at variance, and that the so-called criteria of one See also:place or See also:period are more or less opposed to those of all others, is explained away by the See also:hypothesis that individuals are differently gifted in respect of the capacity to appreciate. (See AESTHETICS.) In See also:political See also:philosophy absolutism, as opposed to constitutional See also:government, is the despotic See also:rule of a See also:sovereign unrestrained by See also:laws and based directly upon force. In the strict sense suchgovernments are rare, but it is customary to apply the term to ;a See also:state at a relatively backward See also:stage of constitutional development.

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