Just imagine if women still didn’t have the rights they deserve, if the government was controlled by one religion or if people couldn’t decide for themselves. The world would still be the way it was in the late 17th to 18th century. Now, what was the Philosophers’ main idea about the Enlightenment? During the Age of Reason, Philosophers, or educated people, discussed the problems people faced with equal rights. A few of the problems that were discussed were equality between genders, peace between religious, rather people should be able to choose their government or not, and if individuals could decide for themselves. Locke states in “Of the Dissolution of Government”, “...the people are at liberty to provide for themselves, by erecting
