Kings and Philosophers 1689-1789
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In Kings and Philosophers 1689-1789 Leonard Krieger accepts the term "enlightened absolutist" and offers a comprehensive explanation of the integration of enlightened principles into the practice of such rulers. The notion of enlightened absolutism is often rejected as an irresolvable paradox. Catherine of Russia, Frederick of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria, it is argued, were absolutists, pure and simple, and their dalliance with Voltaire and others was merely self-indulgent role playing. The proof, it is held, is in their actions in international and domestic politics. But Krieger argues that these three monarchs could be called enlightened because they absorbed and put into practice some major tenets of the Enlightenment--especially those regarding the relationship between interest and virtue and the significance of rationality in human affairs--when, unlike the philosophes, they were faced with the problem of reconciling "recalcitrant facts" and "unrealized
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