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moral absolutism

moral absolutism

the belief that the morality or immorality of an action can be judged according to fixed standards of right and wrong. According to Jean Piaget, moral absolutism is characteristic of young children in the heteronomous stage of moral development, who interpret laws and rules as absolute. See moral realism. Compare moral relativism; situation ethics.

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