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The ages of the Enlightenment and the philosophers was in old Greece and Western Europe. These locations were home to the some of the most powerful of their time , so these famous philosopher were living in very safe and desirable places in the word at the time

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Enlightenment was a period of time where writing and literature, philosophy, education, and inventing was the main concepts that were being practice constantly. During the Greek philosophers time education was one of the most important thing that they cared about, which is why the opened up academics faculties where they would bring in and mentor and educate the children in the art of philosophy and other subjects. In the times of the philosophies they were more into inventing because they had just come out of the industrial revolution.

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During the time of the old Greek philosophers the woman were treated with lots of disrespect. They also didn’t treat children with much respect either, because they had a law that if you put your child on the market as a slave and failed to sell him after the third time he would be set free, and the only reason you would need a law like that would be if it happened a lot.

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The most philosophers that lived during the enlightenment believed in and practiced the religion of Deism. Deism is believing that there is a supreme being, but that he does intervene with human . I am not surprised by this be cause the philosophers lived in times where the worshiped god a lot but they also believed in science and logic

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During the Enlightenment the thought of Merchantilism and a free market began not to grow to power. Smith was one of the main people to argue for the thought of a free market. He tried to show how manufacturing, trade, wages, profit, and growth were all connected to market forces and supply and demand.

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Democracy is the government of choice for the philosophers of old time. Especially Direct Democracy they believed ever one deserved their own voice. Others like Thomas Hobbes and Aristotle hated Direct Democracy because they did trust people with power

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The Enlightenment