... played a significant role during the creation of the Enlightenment. Philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, and Immanuel Kant who believed that human rationale could not be used to fight the lack of knowledge, fallacy, and improve humankind. Their precepts focused on religion and the control of humanity by hereditary nobility. In other words, humans needed a supernatural power to intervene in order to improve the world's morale. Humans were designed to believe in something in order to survive in a world of confusion and evilness. These thinkers or philosophers were better known as schoolmen or doctors of theology because they tied every element of belief with reason. There was no clear definition of the enlightenment because many people view the enlightenment as a thought and not a breakthrough from the deceptions, ignorance and lies from the past of the Europeans to the light of the future ...

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