different between pragmatism vs absolutism

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek stem of ?????? (prâgma, “act”) + -ism.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?æ?m?t?z?m/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?a?m?t?z?m/

Noun

pragmatism (countable and uncountable, plural pragmatisms)

1. The pursuit of practicality over aesthetic qualities; a concentration on facts rather than emotions or ideals.
2. (politics) The theory that political problems should be met with practical solutions rather than ideological ones.
3. (philosophy) The idea that beliefs are identified with the actions of a believer, and the truth of beliefs with success of those actions in securing a believer's goals; the doctrine that ideas must be looked at in terms of their practical effects and consequences.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 378:

     Our conception of these practical consequences is for us the whole of our conception of the object [...] This is the principle of Peirce, the principle of pragmatism.

4. The habit of interfering in other people's affairs; meddlesomeness.

Antonyms

• idealism
• contemplation

Related terms

• pragmatic
• pragmatically
• pragmatist

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French pragmatisme

Noun

pragmatism n (uncountable)

1. pragmatism

Declension

English

Etymology

First attested in 1753 (in the theological sense); attested in 1830 in the political sense. From absolute +? -ism after French absolutisme.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æb.s?.lu?.t?z.m?/, /?æb.s?.lju?.t?z.m?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æb.s??lu?t?z.m?/, /?æb.s??lju?t?z.m?/

Noun

absolutism (countable and uncountable, plural absolutisms)

1. (theology) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner. [First attested in the mid 18^th century.]
2. (political science) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. [First attested in the early 19^th century.]
3. (philosophy) Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute. [First attested in the late 19^th century.]
4. Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
5. (rare) The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.

Hyponyms

• moral absolutism

Translations

References

Further reading

• absolutism at OneLook Dictionary Search
• absolutism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French absolutisme.

Noun

absolutism n (uncountable)

1. absolutism

Swedish

Etymology

absolut +? -ism

Noun

absolutism c (uncountable)

1. absolute monarchy (as a form of government), dictatorship
2. the principle of abstaining from alcohol

Declension

See also

• nykterhet
• nykterism
• absolutist

References

• absolutism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)