The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of reason launched around the mid 1600's to late 1700's. This intellectual movement embarked in Europe by the early philosophers. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Voltaire, and Montesquieu was some of the philosophers who influenced this movement. They were called the Enlightenment thinkers.
John Locke was known as one of the most influential enlightenment thinkers. Locke believed people was born with three nature rights. These rights were called life, liberty, and property. He wrote "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" which proposed that experiences is what make people who they are. This proposal was known as black slate the "Tabula Rasa". During this time, Europe was in so much