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

As a bulwark of enlightened despotism, he spent considerable public funds on cultural ventures this contributed among his critics to controversy about his reign.

Become Enlightened.

But so can enlightened self interest.

Africa can only be transformed by enlightened leaders.

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Despotism is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power.

Charles III of Spain An Enlightened Despot, History Today , Nov 1968, Vol.

In Buddhism, a bodhisattva ( bodhisattva bodhisatta ) is an enlightened ( bodhi ) being ( sattva ).

The locations of these enlightened districts, I think, will fail to surprise you.

The return of Pretorianism, that is, corrupt military despotism, is an unmentionable fact in many African countries.

On the one hand, putting childcare facilities in the workplace is wonderful and enlightened.

The first enlightened writers were Maria Theresia's bodyguards (György Bessenyei, János Batsányi and others).

To the rest of the world, the most worrying aspect of this bureaucratic despotism is related to passports.

We need compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self interest to get ourselves serious.

Another was that it produced despotism and turned workers into wage workers subject to the authority of a boss.

An enlightened autocrat can be just as protective of minority rights as a solidly democratic government.

His name has become a byword for a wealthy, generous and enlightened patron of the arts.

Our country is sinking because of the enlightened strive to take away the little light we have.

Livorno became an enlightened European city and one of the most important ports of the entire Mediterranean area.

Will they hammer out a power and resource sharing deal or will despotism yet again kill the independence dreams of an African nation?

Looking back on Charles's reign, Tories tended to view it as a time of benevolent monarchy whereas Whigs perceived it as a terrible despotism.

With all of us knowing everything, we're kind of forced by technology to become Buddhas or something, to become enlightened.

In the context of Tibetan Buddhism, tülku is used to refer to the corporeal existence of enlightened Buddhist masters in general.

The reality, however, is that 80 of these people are refugees, attempting to escape despotism, terror, and religious extremism in countries like Syria, Eritrea, and Afghanistan.

But rising pressure over the past two decades from civil society groups, the media, and more enlightened politicians is finally showing results.

The US, with its cherished image as a land of opportunity, should be an inspiring example of just and enlightened treatment of children.

On the other side of the fence is Zahhak, a symbol of despotism who was, finally, defeated by Kaveh the Blacksmith who led a popular uprising against him.

In his speech, Bakunin called for an alliance between the Polish and Russian peoples against the Emperor, and looked forward to the definitive collapse of despotism in Russia.

And lest you think that you all, as the digerati, are more enlightened, I went to the Apple iPhone app store the other day.

All nine children survived to adulthood, a fact which biographer Hermione Hobhouse credited to Albert's enlightened influence on the healthy running of the nursery.

The first has fallen away, its accompanying social structures superseded by industrialization, urbanization, and feminization of the workforce, while the oft seen link with despotism has delegitimized the second.

Steven Rosenfielde states that the standard of living actually declined as a result of Stalin's despotism, and while there was a brief improvement following his death, lapsed into stagnation.

He gave it the subtitle, A work in which the clandestine and villainous attempts of Princes to ruin Liberty are pointed out, and the dreadful scenes of Despotism disclosed .

Driving them home, and they want them to be enlightened, so they take them to Ben Jerry's ice cream company with its own foreign policy.

But everyone that I knew had an interest in the primacy of the written word in terms of nurturing a democracy, nurturing an enlightened life.

Yet, despite persistent and even rising anti immigrant sentiment in much of the world, promising signs of a more enlightened approach to migration are emerging.

Enlightened self interest, because if that economic divergence continues for another 40 years, combined with social integration globally, it will build a nightmare for our children.

(1840), posthumously published in the Théorie de la propriété ( Theory of Property , 1863 64), he declared in turn that property is theft , property is impossible , property is despotism , and property is freedom .

The Mongols have been blamed for the destruction of Kievan Rus', the breakup of the ancient Rus' nationality into three components, and the introduction of the concept of oriental despotism into Russia.

Engage your fantasy and look for mythical creatures here, illustrations of angels and devils, heavenly bodies or allow yourself to be enlightened by quotes from Hindu texts.

Sun Tzu viewed the ideal general as an enlightened Taoist master, which has led to The Art of War being considered a prime example of Taoist strategy.

Mutsuhito, who was to reign until 1912, selected a new reign title Meiji , or Enlightened Rule to mark the beginning of a new era in Japanese history.

I've heard what I consider an extraordinary thing that I've only heard a little bit in the two previous TEDs, and what that is is an interweaving and an interlarding, an intermixing, of a sense of social responsibility in so many of the talks global responsibility, in fact, appealing to enlightened self interest, but it goes far beyond enlightened self interest.

Meanwhile, California, New York, we can say, Oh we're enlightened but you know, certainly a much lower incidence of this admitted, I suppose, manifestation of racially based voting.