John Locke Adam Smith And Wollstonecraft

The Enlightenment What was the main idea of the philosopher’s? The main idea of the philosophers was to give people more rights and more freedom. The four main philosophers of the Enlightenment period, also known as the sage of reasoning, were John Locke, Voltaire, Adam Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft. During the age of reasoning well educated people known as the philosophers would meet up and discuss political, religious economic, and social questions, but what were the philosophers main idea. The main idea of Locke, Voltaire, Smith, and Wollstonecraft was to help people get the natural rights that were taken from them. In 1792 Wollstonecraft wrote a book called,” A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” and in that book she talked about that women should have more rights and freedom and that women should be treated the same way men do. Wollstone writes,” the only method of leading women to fulfill their peculiar duties is to free them from restraint by allowing them to participate in the inherent rights of mankind.” She also writes,” both sexes must act from the same principle;... women must be allowed to found their virtue on knowledge, which is scarcely possible unless …show more content…
John Locke wrote,” There is nothing more evident, than the creatures of the same species and rank… should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection.” He also wrote,” When the government is dissolved, the people are at liberty to provide for themselves, by erecting a new legislative.” If there was a man and a women, to Locke, they should be equal instead of a man having more freedom than the women, and also if a government were to ended then the people have the liberty to erect a new