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The Enlightened Despots
By: Geoffrey Bruun
Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 07-08-05
Language: English
Publisher: Audio Connoisseur

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From the death of Louis XIV in 1715 until the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, there occurred a profound evolution in the thinking of political philosophers, whose epoch is known as The Enlightenment. There were three men whose writings were to be most responsible for this intellectual whirlwind: Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. And there were to be three rulers whose absorption of this new thinking actually resulted in an attempt to put many of those ideas into practice: Frederick the Great of Prussia, Joseph II of Austria, and Catherine the Great of Russia. Naturally, there were other thinkers, collectively known as the “Philosophes”. And there were other, lesser rulers who would also reflect this new intellectual and spiritual glory.

But where did it come from? How, in the middle of one of the most corrupt centuries of all time, could a small group of monarchs suddenly become infatuated with the thinking of an even smaller group of eccentric intellectuals? On the face of it, it seems highly improbable. At the beginning of the 18th century, kings ruled by the divine right of God Almighty, and were answerable only to God. Near the end of the same century, they still ruled by the grace of God…but now they were answerable to the people they ruled. This was the era of the Great Awakening of the common man. The consequences were to be momentous for the world. For it was from the works of the Philosophes that the French Revolution would germinate, and it was from the French Revolution that the ultimate Enlightened Despot would emerge…Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Creation Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 03:37:58 +0100
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01. Introduction - The Evlution of Law and Government.mp3 7.58 MBs
02. The Royal Prerogative.mp3 6.55 MBs
03. Chapter 1 - The Philosophy of the Enlightenment.mp3 11.14 MBs
04. The Intellectual Temper of the Age.mp3 7.94 MBs
05. The Old Regime.mp3 9.97 MBs
06. Enlightened Despotism.mp3 6.89 MBs
07. The High Watermark of Success in the Rationalist Assault.mp3 7.18 MBs
08. Chapter 2 - Frederick II, Joseph II, and Catherine II.mp3 9.27 MBs
09. Joseph II.mp3 9.78 MBs
10. Juristic Reforms.mp3 10.91 MBs
11. Catharine the Great.mp3 9.53 MBs
12. Chapter 3 - Benevolent Monarchs and Reforming Ministers.mp3 10.01 MBs
13. Pombal in Portugal.mp3 9.41 MBs
14. Turgot in France.mp3 7.17 MBs
15. Epilogue - The Enlightened Despotism of Napoleoon.mp3 8.34 MBs
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