The Enlightened Despots

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1. Catherine the Great

1.1. Great patron in art

1.2. Built hospitals and increased healthcare

1.3. Aided in the reformation of the Legistlative Commision

2. Louis XIV

2.1. Attempted reformation by reinstating parliament

2.2. Mostly failed in his attempts to instate the enlightenment into his actions

3. Frederick the Great

3.1. Like others, he granted religious toleration to his people in Prussia

3.2. Abolished torture inflicted by churches and other parties

4. Definition

4.1. A leader of non-democratic or authoritarian belief that uses political power to benifit people. They were not viewed as elite or higher rank figures however.

4.2. New view on absolutism

4.3. A new view on the way politics were run; using their power for the others "well being"

5. Joseph II of Austria

5.1. Joseph II ended censorship in theatre and media.

5.2. Joseph II of Austria fully implicated the ideal of the social contract into his method of political power. "Everything for the people, nothing by the people"