Enlightenment:: the age of change

It was during the late 17th century and the 18th century when people started to question what's
going on around them. At first the people started to question the government and after a little
while they questioned everything. The main people were: John Locke, Voltaire, and the lady
Wollstonecraft. They were the people that changed everyone's belief in freedom and equality,
they all had these ideas that were somehow connected there ideas were: freedom of
government, freedom of religion, freedom of women.
John Locke had lived during the English civil war and the glorious revolution, he had learned
so much from living in both of them and surviving. He decided to come up with an idea that
would both start the enlightenment and make everyone start to question the government itself
and how it worked. John had an idea for freedom of mankind as he said that in this
excerpt:there is nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank.
Should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection.(document A)
this is what he was trying to prove everyone that creatures of the same kind and rank, have to
be equal without saying he's in a better position. In order for that to work you will need a
good working government and that's what he exactly said in this part: when the government
is dissolved, the people are at liberty to provide themselves, be erecting a new legislative for
the society can never , lose the native and original right it has to preserve itself , it can be
done by having a fair and impartial execution.(documentA) Which meant that in order for a
man to be free he also needs a good working government that had a settled legislative and a
fair and impartial execution, and what he meant by fair execution is that the government
wouldn't be going around killing everybody who's innocent and leaving the bad guys alone.
Voltaires idea was taken somehow from john lockes theory, but Voltaire had added
something to the list which was freedom of religion. As he said, people come to the Royal
Mail to discuss about how they can improve mankind and help them where they are at right
now he said that:if there was more than one religion everyone would be living in peace and
happiness. (DocumentB)As you can clearly see what he meant is that having a multitude of
religions in your country could actually make your country more peaceful, but if you have
two religions people would go around and kill each other, and if there is only one religion
there will be a huge war happening and it will keep going on until the government finds a
solution to that big mess. He even said something about the Royal Mail: take a look at the
Royal exchange where people from all over the world that come and talk about how their
people are doing and how can they change it.(documentB) He had just given us a quick
overview about what they do in the royal exchange and how they managed to change
everyone.
Mary Wollstonecraft was the only main lady in the enlightenment age, she wanted equality
for women just as men and she fought over it until she died,Mary's eyes, as she developed her
feminist philosophy, her employer came to stand for all that was wrong in women - their
coquetry, their exaggerated weakness, their corrupt manipulating power and their dependence
on men for identity. She said that: to render mankind both sexes must do everything
together.(DocumentD) which meant that in order for a women to be exactly like a man they
must go to school like them and work like them and do everything literally the same as male

do. She said that quote that no one would forget: the most perfect eduction in my opinion is
to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will her independent. She's arguing
that the most perfect eduction anyone could get is being able to attain habits of virtue.

This sums the whole essay up, equality and freedom were just the basic start to our world
right now. Without them we still would've followed the same people amd never learn
anything about them