The Philosophers in the Enlightenment
With important ideas from important people comes great importance in change. A certain group of people who were well educated in Western Europe were called the Philosophes. They explored ideas on how to make society grow and how to make it a better place to live. Voltaire was a believer in freedom of religion. “If one religion only were allowed in England the government would very possibly become arbitrary [unrestrained] ; if there were but two, the people would cut one another’s throats; but as there are such a multitude, they all live happily in peace.” (Voltaire) Agreeing with Voltaire, freedom of religion is an important concept in life. If there was only one religion to world would be in chaos. His main idea about religion is that he strongly believed in the idea of expressing and having any religion. Like Locke, Voltaire plays an important role on individual freedom. Voltaire believes that having citizens choose their own religion would bypass all of the religious conflict it would create if everyone would have only one religion.
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“Reason and experience convince me that the only method of leading women to fulfill their peculiar duties is to free them from all restraint.” (Wollstonecraft) Wollstonecraft believed that the way the women were being treated at the time, wasn’t fair. Nor did Wollstonecraft believe that really anyone was being treated with respect. To render [make] mankind more virtuous, and happier of course, both sexes must act from the same principle;...” (Wollstonecraft) She recommends for women to be as equal as men by allowing them to participate with the men, getting an education, making their skills worthy of being treated like individuals instead of objects or