Isaac Newton And John Locke And The Age Of Reason

The Enlightenment or also known as the Age of Reason was from the mid 1680’s up until the early 19th century. The Age of reason took place all of the world anywhere from Switzerland, to Scotland, to Germany, to America, and so forth. The Enlightenment was mainly about using reason to understand and believe things. It began to push individuals to stop just believing what the Christian and Catholic churches had to say about things and begin to question them them and want factual information to prove them. The Enlightenment can be broken down into three main parts which are the ‘Early Enlightenment’ which took place from 1685 throughout 1730, the ‘High Enlightenment’ which took place from 1730 throughout 1780, and finally the ‘Late Enlightenment’ which took place from 1730 up until 1815 where it later ended. During the Enlightenment there were loads of philosophers, mathematicians, and other thinkers that arose. Some of these thinkers included Englishmen Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes, Frenchman Renee Descartes, and of course some of the important thinkers from the Scientific Revolution such as Galileo and Kepler. All of these people can be attributed to helping the Age of Reason come forth but two thinkers that stood out to me the most would be Isaac Newton and John Locke. John Locke was an English philosopher who lived from 1632 until 1704. Locke’s ideas provided influence in the development of both Epistemology and Political Philosophy. Locke is often to be considered