The Enlightenment: Improving Society

The Enlightenment was a period with intellectual movement, and with big ideas come big change. During the later 17th and 18th century, the wise thinkers of the enlightenment improved their society by expanding the people’s freedom, liberty, rights, and equality. Specifically improving their government making, economic system, religion, and equality for all women. The four people to begin improving the society were philosophers John Locke, Voltaire, Adam Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft. The world changed drastically with the decision making and ideas of these four, and many people gained their own rights. The enlightenment of these philosophers changed society, by their belief of natural laws. Out of the four main categories in which society