His experience there gave him a place to experiment with the practice of enlightened despotism.

Or is enlightened despotism still a contradiction in terms?

Enlightened Despotism is not a mere figment of the historian's imagination.

However limited its immediate effects, the ideology of Enlightened Despotism was important in the long term.

In these years Frederick gave Europe its first real example of enlightened despotism in action.

However, it can become an enlightened despotism.

This theory held that enlightened despotism was necessary for the time being to promote economic growth and prepare China for democracy later on.

The Atatürk era was one of enlightened despotism.

This "guidance" was interpreted by Anne to mean that her father believed in a sort of "enlightened despotism" ideology.

This ideal was sometimes expressed by partisans of Enlightened Despotism with almost religious fervour.

First of all he contrasts representative democracy with what he calls enlightened despotism which is really something like places guardianship.

So that's Mill's argument against enlightened despotism.

He proceeded to attempt to realize his ideal of enlightened despotism acting on a definite system for the good of all.

In the 18th century the Prussian state had been the model of enlightened despotism for the rest of Germany.

The French lacked any real political freedom, yet also lacked the ease or security which enlightened despotism can bestow.

The reforms of an elitist enlightened despotism fulfilled nearly all the ambitions of the new upper middle class.

Enlightened despotism meant political stability.

Denmark became the model of enlightened despotism, partially influenced by the outbreak of the French Revolution.

The Principality of Transylvania experienced a golden age under Bethlen's enlightened despotism.

He was a proponent of Enlightened Despotism and, in 1784, his government banned all secret societies, including the Illuminati.

Long an admirer of enlightened despotism, Voltaire approved of Catherine's secular policies.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, enlightened despotism, secularism, nationalism and liberalism had all fanned the flames.

In a paradoxical way, Kant supported in the same time enlightened despotism as a way of leading humanity towards its autonomy.

Steeped in the teachings of the French Enlightenment, he practised "enlightened despotism," or reform from above designed to preempt revolution from below.

As a bulwark of enlightened despotism, his expenditure of considerable public funds on cultural ventures contributed to his controversial majesty.