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During sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, European countries had undergone critical situation and on those days the leaders of European countries such as Prussia, Russia, Austria and England had underwent this absolutism and whereas The philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that absolutism was necessary to maintain a level of security in the society.

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Absolutism was the prevailing political philosophy all over the world until democracy became much more prevalent in the 19th-21st centuries. It existed on all continents and in all historical countries prior to 1800 almost without exception and continued in many others long after 1800.

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Charles I in England; Louis XIV in France- he said "L'état, c1est moi" (I am the state); Joseph II and Francis Joseph in Hungary; Alexander I and Nocolas I in Russia.

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