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单词 absolutize
释义

Definition of absolutize in English:

absolutize

(British absolutise)
verb ˈabsəl(j)uːtʌɪzˈæbsəluˌtaɪz
[with object]Theology Philosophy
  • Make or treat (something) as absolute.

    modes of absolutizing what is merely relative
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In this sense, the Holy Spirit brings God's judgment upon the tendency to absolutize any human institution, even the most sacred.
    • One of Eckhart's key ideas is that God is infinitely greater than anything we can think about him, and that one of the problems with religion is that we absolutise our metaphors and our struggle to say something about God.
    • Our responsibility as the thinking-doubting faithful is to live graciously out of the Christian tradition without absolutizing it.
    • Perhaps we've idolized security, absolutizing it above other values.
    • Finally, the author criticizes the sanctity of life concept by arguing that it is a form of idolatry of biological life and that it absolutizes this life by forgetting that there is a life to come.

Derivatives

  • absolutization

  • noun absəl(j)uːtʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
    Philosophy Theology
    • Again, this is not meant as an argument against rationality, only the absolutisation of it.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Meanwhile, it is precisely in the execution of this function, and not in the absolutisation of concrete aspects of the life-activity of science, that the monistic intention of philosophy is realised.
      • It seems that this absolutization leads to subjectivism.
      • For many, the only effective defence appeared to be the absolutization of continuity.
      • ‘Every producer,’ she writes, ‘is condemned by the absolutization of innovation to a lifetime of peddling the same old trick’; here, for ‘innovation,’ read ‘branding’ or ‘market niche.’
 
 

Definition of absolutize in US English:

absolutize

(British absolutise)
verbˈæbsəluˌtaɪzˈabsəlo͞oˌtīz
[with object]Theology Philosophy
  • Make or treat (something) as absolute.

    modes of absolutizing what is merely relative
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In this sense, the Holy Spirit brings God's judgment upon the tendency to absolutize any human institution, even the most sacred.
    • Our responsibility as the thinking-doubting faithful is to live graciously out of the Christian tradition without absolutizing it.
    • Finally, the author criticizes the sanctity of life concept by arguing that it is a form of idolatry of biological life and that it absolutizes this life by forgetting that there is a life to come.
    • Perhaps we've idolized security, absolutizing it above other values.
    • One of Eckhart's key ideas is that God is infinitely greater than anything we can think about him, and that one of the problems with religion is that we absolutise our metaphors and our struggle to say something about God.
 
 
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