絶ぜっ対たい主しゅ義ぎ

ぜ

っ

た

い

しゅ

ぎ

Meanings

Refers to the political doctrine of absolute monarchy or the philosophical concept of absolute truth/values.

権けん

力りょく

を

持も

つ

政せい

治じ

体たい

制せい

を

指さ

す

。

Absolutism refers to a political system in which the monarch holds unlimited power.

倫りん理り学がくにおける絶ぜっ対たい主しゅ義ぎは、普ふ遍へん的てきな道どう徳とく原げん理りが存そん在ざいすると主しゅ張ちょうする。

Absolutism in ethics asserts that universal moral principles exist.

専せん制せい主しゅ義ぎ
Despotism; emphasizes arbitrary rule, while 絶対主義 focuses on the theoretical unlimited sovereignty of a monarch.
相そう対たい主しゅ義ぎ
Relativism; the philosophical opposite, denying absolute truths or values.

Compound of 絶対 (zettai, 'absolute') and 主義 (shugi, 'doctrine, -ism'), likely a Meiji-era calque from Western political and philosophical terminology.