John Locke And The Enlightenment
John Locke was a philosopher and supporter of The Enlightenment whose philosophies served a crucial role in its formation, these ideologies fall into three major branches: epistemology, political philosophy, and religious toleration. The Enlightenment was a cultural movement that revolved around the use of reason and progress from the Scientific Revolution to address human problems. Epistemology supported inductive reasoning, a form of thinking in which one takes specific details and uses them to form reasonable and general statements. This form of reasoning differentiated The Enlightenment from The Scientific Revolution, which encouraged deductive reasoning instead. Locke’s theories on epistemology included the “Theory of mind” in which every