Many early Enlightenment thinkers(or philosophers) like, Rene Descartes, John Locke, and Francis Bacon were very important, without them our political and philosophical ideas would be very different. The first began questioning traditional authority because people had their own beliefs, the Church would force christianity upon people. Anyone with different ideas would be tortured or persecuted. Martin Luther(a very important Enlightenment philosopher), nail the 95 theses on the door of the Holy Church, this made him a target of the Church. All these philosophers revolted against the Church for one reason, they had different ideas from the Church. Every time they spread their ideas, people would join because they believed in the same concepts, and the Church hated them for
Many early Enlightenment thinkers(or philosophers) like, Rene Descartes, John Locke, and Francis Bacon were very important, without them our political and philosophical ideas would be very different. The first began questioning traditional authority because people had their own beliefs, the Church would force christianity upon people. Anyone with different ideas would be tortured or persecuted. Martin Luther(a very important Enlightenment philosopher), nail the 95 theses on the door of the Holy Church, this made him a target of the Church. All these philosophers revolted against the Church for one reason, they had different ideas from the Church. Every time they spread their ideas, people would join because they believed in the same concepts, and the Church hated them for