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Comparing The Enlightenment: John Locke And Baron Montesquieu

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During this time of some of the great philosophers, man was truly not free. Society was in a deep state of depression. People could not even afford food or a piece of bread. The king did nothing to help his people. Man was put in a position where no one had the same rights, man was truly not free New ideals such as democracy articulated by the Enlightenment philosophers were used to challenge standard European monarchies which led to the revolution by inspiring new ways to think about how government and people can live and moving away from traditional thought
The Enlightenment had many philosophers such as John Locke, and Baron Montesquieu expressed their thoughts through speeches and documents. A Enlightenment philosopher John Locke expressed
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