Concept

Moral absolutism

Overview

Moral absolutism is a metaethical view that some or even all actions are intrinsically right or wrong, regardless of context or consequence.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Immanuel Kant
• Duty
• Metaethics
• Thomas Aquinas
• Natural law
• Ten Commandments
• Religion
• Deontology
• Action (philosophy)
• Moral relativism
• Rights
• Euthyphro dilemma
• Good and evil

Opposing perspectives

• Moral universalism
• Virtue ethics

Place in the tradition

Part of Cultural relativism.

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