The term Absolutism may refer to: Absolute idealism, an ontologically monistic philosophy attributed to G.W.F. Hegel. It is Hegel's account of how being is ultimately comprehensible as an all-inclusive whole Absolute monarchy, a form of government where the monarch has the power to rule their land freely, with no laws or legally-organized direct opposition in force Absolute space, a theory holding that space exists absolutely, in contrast to relationalism, which holds that space exists only as… (More on Absolutism)