Insight into The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment was the death of secrecy and the birth of the public sphere. It was the advent of knowledge where people were allowed to express themselves more freely and share ideas amongst each other. Ideas such as freedom of speech and new forms of science and literature were prominent. Some important people involved in this movement include George Berkeley who created the theory of subjective idealism, Adam Smith who virtually created the idea of the free-market economy and wrote “The Wealth of Nations”, and Thomas Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became a president of the United States.

- Dev Singh