John Locke: The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment was intellectual and scientific movement of 18th century Europe that later on spread to other countries. This was the scientific approach to religious, social,political and Economic issues. The Enlightenment later on established Revolutions and movements for human rights.The Enlightenment was the age of reasoning and thinking. This made people start to think and use their own brains. This did not only make them think for themselves but as a whole community and their everyday life, before the Enlightenment the church usually told them what to think and how to do things but now they start to question the church. They were already questioning the church after their pull away from the roman church branch. This later made people want to start to prove the church wrong and some teachings were wrong but some …show more content…
There was quote that people would say back then and it went like “Dare to know” this was people saying that they wanted to know everything.they touched all the questions that everybody wanted to the answer to. People practically quite their lives and started to advocate scientific method and they also tested religious theories to see if what the church was saying was right and valid . There were a lot of leaders and figures of the Enlightenment such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton , These are only a few of the leaders but my favorite is John Locke who is An English political theorist who focused on the structure of governments. Locke believed that men are all rational and capable people but must compromise some of their beliefs in the interest of forming a government for the people. In his famous Two Treatises of Government (1690), he championed the idea of a representative government that would best serve all constituents. I like him because I find government politics interesting and his views were very intersting