They’re Not Just Dead People The most influential individuals of the Enlightenment Beccaria, Copernicus, Galilei, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Newton, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Voltaire are all people you have probably heard of before; but did you know that they all have affected the way you live right now. Authors, philosophers, scientists, and martyrs from the Enlightenment still make an impact on your life hundreds of years after their dead. How you might ask.
The philosophers and authors influenced not only their own people but other countries for example America; our rights and our freedoms come from documents like the Constitution or the Bill of Rights and those documents were written by the “Founding Fathers.” The “Founding
The philosophers and authors influenced not only their own people but other countries for example America; our rights and our freedoms come from documents like the Constitution or the Bill of Rights and those documents were written by the “Founding Fathers.” The “Founding