The Enlightenment of the 18th century is the era in western philosophy, scientific and central life that revolved around the 18th century. It was the primary source for legitimacy and authority. The thinkers of the enlightenment rejected the supremacy of religion, superstition and church authority and replaced it with reason. The enlightenment paved the way socially for us today. It helped the rights for women. It also helped us separate religion and politics. Most of the thinkers of the Enlightenment
economic performance. It results in a world dominated by unregulated markets, where “inequality and private power shape the social order,” Classical liberalism arose along with the Enlightenment movement of the late 17th and the 18th centuries which proclaimed reason as the foundation of individual freedom. Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke (1632–1704) argued that in the ‘state of nature’, all men were free and equal, therefore possessing inalienable rights independent of the laws of any government