Hobbes enjoys describing the sovereign in the most absolute and extreme terms.

霍布斯喜欢用一些极端绝对的词汇,来描述君主和君权。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Part of being an absolute ruler is being able to levy taxes against those people who have the joy or the extreme misfortune of living in those domains, and more about that later.

绝对统治者的一个权利,就是能向那些领土内的富商巨贾,或是一贫如洗的穷人征收赋税,这个稍后再详说

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Whatever demons first drove him, he had turned to an extreme ideology that expressed the kind of absolute certainty that can feel comforting in the short-term but that destroys all understanding in the long-term.

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