The era of enlightenment was known to be revolutionary because philosophes challenged numerous medieval ideas and long accepted theories to their legitimacy. Although some may argue that these ideas weren’t revolutionary or didn’t affect the enlightenment era at all. What was the enlightenment? This was an era in which man would leave their self absorbed immaturity and incapacity to use their own intelligence of freedom of reason. According to Immanuel Kant people weren’t enlightened because they were simply lazy, they relied on the intellectual abilities of others instead of their own. Tolerance in a way also lead to an extent of ideas in revolutionary philosophe because during the renaissance era religious tolerance was at its most
