Enlightenment - SPRITE

Enlightenment - Philosophes
S The Philosophes of the Enlightenment demanded equality and rights for society as a whole, this was not always accomplished but but some areas were fairly democratic, when many philosophes were discussing important things at salons women were given a chance to work a little and to have more rights
P Philosophes ended up telling the monarchs to be an enlightened despot or to rule democratically, not a whole lot of monarchs ruled by popular sovereignty and democracy but instead became enlightened despots which still meant absolute power but that that ruler had to help the people use his enlightened knowledge to be a humanitarian
R  The Enlightenment failed to include God in these new ways of governing and kind of discouraged religion, led to many unbelievers and agnostics, the philosophes further weakened the power of the Catholic Church and weakened many other protestant churches as well
I Philosophes made people think in very rational and reasonable terms to help figure things out, after all that is what the philosophes did concerning government, paved way for new ideas such as liberalism that also thought reason was good and ideas such as Romanticism that said reason was a load of crap
T Philosophes also paved the way for new things to be invented because they introduced reason, The Industrial Revolution was a based on reason that had its origins form the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
E Economy not real affected by the philosophes except it declined because these thinkers were going around thinking and not working which is not very beneficial to society economically, enlightened despots were encouraged to make enlightened decisions about the economy but this did not always happen

Enlightenment - Enlightened Despots in Austria

S As a whole society was typically better because of social and humanitarian reforms that helped society, people's health, education, and lives were more valued and enlightened despots attempted to make reforms to help these things
P Enlightened despots in Austria showed Europe that enlightened despotism was beneficial and was effective, made Austria very centralized and organized politically, the despot usually tried to rule more justly to benefit the people. Because Charles VI made the pragmatic sanction the war of Austrian succession began. Maria Theresa was able to win the war against Prussia. Her son Joseph II became HRE and king of Austria after her death.
R Religion stayed mostly the same but there was not a very big emphasis on it, Catholicism was strengthened in Austria, there was generally less tolerance for other religions; Intellectuals and Philosophes began studying Deism. Deism states that God created the world but then backed off and is not involved in the affairs of the world today.
I Enlightened Despots made philosopohes feel good about themselves and demonstrated how successful the Enlightenment was, more humanitarians began to appear and build off of what some of the enlightened despots accomplished, some intellects felt enlightened depots should be more democratic which led to the creation of liberalism and popular sovereignty
T During the prosperous times of enlightened despots inventors were busy building machines and building the foundations for the Industrial Revolution, this was only made possible by the stable economy and government created by enlightened despots
E At the start of the 1700s, Charles VI bankrupted the country by fighting the Spanish War for Succession against Louis XIV. Later Enlightened Despots helped the economy quite a bit through economic reforms but if they went to war the economy typically went down, the beneficial economy created by the despots led to technological advancements and other large movements later down the road