About the Book
This book consists of articles from Wikia. Pages: 99. Chapters: Absolute, Affect, Anomalous monism, Aponia, Arborescent, Ataraxia, Authority, Biological naturalism, Causality, Connotation and denotation, Desiring-production, Discourse, Eliminative materialism, Episteme, Epoche, Eudaemonia, Eudaimonia, Eudaimonism, Experience, Face-to-face, Fact, Freedom, Free will, Functionalism, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, Hate speech, Holism, Ideology, Immanence, Individualism, Individuation, Innate idea, Intentional stance, Justice, Marx's theory of alienation, Multiple realizability, Norm, Noumenon, Objectivity, Operational definition, Other, Overdetermination, Panopticon, Percept, Phenomenon, Self, Semantic holism, Social contract, Society, State of nature, Subjectivity, Subject, Superrationality, Transcendental idealism, Truth, Type physicalism. Excerpt: The Absolute is the concept of an unconditional reality which transcends limited, conditional, everyday existence. It is often used as an alternate term for a "God" or "the Divine," especially, but by no means exclusively, by those who feel that the term "God" lends itself too easily to anthropomorphic presumptions. The concept of The Absolute may or may not (depending on one's specific doctrine) possess discrete will, intelligence, awareness or even a personal nature. It is sometimes conceived of as the source through which all being emanates. It contrasts with finite things, considered individually, and known collectively as the relative. As such, the word "Absolute" signifies a negative concept: non
