The Enlightement Philosopher thinker Hume David

• The scientific approach led many European Philosophers to believe in the power of of human reason and the perfectibility of mankind.
• Enlightenment  thinkers urged religious toleration.
• sought to "discover" the law of human behavior
• The Enlightenment thinkers trusted nature and human reason but distrusted institution.

The Enlightenment was partly the product of continued social, political, and religious tension.

David Hume-Scottish philosopher
One of the  enlightment thinkers in the early 18th century, was David Hume. He was a philosopher and in the area of
skepticism.  It seems he questions Gods divinity, and also humans beings imperfection and our trustworthiness.
This simply means that we are born with certan traits which effects our actions, and therefore may not
be reality.  This was in opposite to rationalist thought, and was "instrumental in the shift away from rationalist thought that ended the Enlightenment".

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