Enlightenment Thinkers In The 18th Century

In the 18th century an intellectual movement that stressed reason, liberty and science, changed people’s idea about the world called the Enlightenment also known as the Age of reason. The Enlightenment developed in France and later spreads throughout Europe and United States. Enlightenment thinkers found out that natural laws governed the universe and that people could think for themselves. Enlightenment thinkers were basically humanists that supported equality and human self-respect. They wanted evidence and reason before believing something which is applied in life, particularly in science and even in the nature of reality. Individualism was also emphasized in the Enlightenment which means that men should have the freedom to think for themselves.