@article{Ivanovski_Vasilevska_2020, title={THE ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM IN WESTERN EUROPE SOCIETY}, volume={2}, url={https://js.ugd.edu.mk/index.php/scgw/article/view/3951}, DOI={10.46763/SCGW207-20545i}, abstractNote={<p>Enlightened absolutism represents a state policy which is implemented by the European<br>forces in the duration of the 18th century. The chronological line of the enlightened absolutism<br>covers the period of almost a half of century, from 1740 until 1789 i.e. to the start of the<br>French revolution. The enlightened absolutism is a movement within the absolutism which<br>follows after autocracy (fascism) and precedes the despotism. As founder and ideologist of the<br>Enlightened absolutism is considered Thomas Hobbes with his master piece the Leviathan.<br>The Leviathan according to Hobbes is a sovereign state power (the best form for him is<br>absolute monarchy), which is needed in order to compel people of their obligations. The<br>philosophy of this policy amounts to postulate which stipulates that the social reforms are<br>possible but only through the state and for the state, this phenomena are social expression<br>of the state interest and the state is the only possible protector of fundamental rights and<br>freedoms of the man and the citizen is the state. In other words, according to the Enlightened<br>absolutists (adherents of the absolute monarchy) ‘welfare in society “is possible only and<br>only through the state and the regime that was established by the same. Because of all above<br>mention, our interest in this paper is to explain the basic goal of the ideas of the enlightened<br>absolutism.</p>}, number={7}, journal={Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Social Changes in the Global World&quot;}, author={Ivanovski, Sinisa and Vasilevska, Ivanka}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={545-555} }