The Enlightenment changed the perspective and the outlook of people. Philosophers during the Enlightenment wrote about economic theories ,rights for women, human understanding, and wrote criticisms of the Catholic Church. People started looking at things differently after writers and philosophers began to question faith and reason. The major formative influences on the philosophes were the thinkers of the Scientific Revolution. The thinkers of the Scientific Revolution greatly impacted the way the philosophes of the Enlightenment thought. Both the ideas spread by Voltaire, and knowledge spread of the Encyclopedia was essential to the success of the Enlightenment. His ideas caused people to think about ideas of freedom and liberty. The Encyclopedia
