Radical Changes During The Age Of The Enlightenment

During the age of the Enlightenment, radical changes were made in the human’s understandings of the world. Unconventional philosophers abandoned traditional ideas of religion and emphasized logical reasoning and individualism. The philosophers influenced many aspects of life with these original concepts. Major philosophers, such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Montesquieu, proposed their innovative ideas on the nature of mankind and the government. They held similar, but also very different opinions about the effects of man’s behavior on the society. Hobbes was an English philosopher who had a pessimistic view on human nature. He wrote the Leviathan, in which he stated that men lived in constant warfare because of competition for the better