Absolutes

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Absolutes

  1. plural of Absolute
    • 1992, Manju Jain, T.S. Eliot and American Philosophy: The Harvard Years[1], page 98:
      [...] and expressing his detestation of 'the Absolutes and the dragooned myths by which people seek to cancel the passing ideal.'
    • 2003, Raya Dunayevskaya, Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre, and from Marx to Mao[2], page 43:
      [...] even if you read Geist as God, the Absolutes have so earthy a quality, [...]
    • 2007, Clifford Barrett, Contemporary Idealism in America, page 326:
      ... in short, who have felt that the Absolutes of the older Idealists did less than justice to the character of inexhaustible novelty and creative fecundity in the Universe.