Enlightenment in the European time in the 17th and 18th centuries a individualism rather than tradition. It was influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and it includes Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. Enlightenment was a time of social growth. The way that people look at the world changed.during this time all people during this time all the people all people started to believe that all men were free people. This allowed people to search the world around them and create new ideas. There were also very good inventions not people believe that people's actions should be to help the common goods. These people now started to travel the world but made sure they were not hurting the common good in their country. There were three very important people through them I am in stage there was Benjamin Franklin, Thomas hobbies, and John locke. …show more content…
In 1665 his book leviathan it made a social contract theory of the most later western political philosophy. He develops European liberal thoughts such as the right of the individual the natural equality of all man and the artificial character of the political order he was a really good man. Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the United States he pretty much introduce America to enlightenment stage. Franklin announced in 1743 that it was time for colonists to start improving the bottom of the humankind through collaborative inquiry. From franklin's ideas put together the American philosophical society and th e association headquartered in Philadelphia. It created power for the common good so Benjamin Franklin was a big part of the