Enlightenment thinkers and philosophers such as John Locke, Adam Smith, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jeremy Bentham, Denis Diderot, and Montesquieu created new ideologies, some of which became majorly popular with the common people. An example of one of these ideologies would be Rationalism which is the idea that a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response. This idea was created by Voltaire who influenced the ideas of the philosophers of Continental Rationalism.
Voltaire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire
Smith, Bonnie G., Richard Von Glahn, and Kris E. Lane. Crossroads and Cultures: A History of the World's Peoples. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012. Print.
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