The Enlightenment was an era of discovery and innovation, for political and personal philosophy. The main goal of the Enlightenment was to understand the world through different approaches. It was a time where knowledge was learned and acquired throughout this period, notably through a philosopher called John Locke who had ideas about freedom of religion and the rights of citizens and who also wrote two books in order to show his arguments, these books are called "Two Treatises on Civil Government" and "An Essay on Human Understanding" where he begins to discuss political power, the state of nature, the difference between the state of nature and the state of war, the operation of property, and how government should be run in the “Two Treatises of Civil Government” and for “human understanding,” Locke discusses three purposes. His ideas are to discover "where ideas come from" "to determine what it means to have these ideas and what an idea essentially is" and "to examine questions of faith and opinion to determine how we should proceed logically when our knowledge is limited. Locke first begins his argument about the state of nature in his "Two Treatises on Civil Government" by attacking Sir Robert Filmer and arguing that no one has control over another individual and that natural law governs and makes everyone equal and that everyone has the power of executive power and natural law. Lockes' argument was such as to enable him to combat Sir Robert Filmer's theory. of the divine right of sovereignty Locke states this by saying that no one should confuse the different types of power which are paternal, familial and political and that for each of these powers there are different characteristics. Locke says that political power is the right to make laws and regulate things. pr...... middle of paper ......s he hopes that we can all come together and understand the existence and properties of things that exist in the world. John Locke's achievements were writing the essay "Concerning Human Understanding", which was about theories of ideas and knowledge, was published in 1689 and his other achievement was "The Two Treatises of Civil Government", which deal with the rights of individuals and the response to political problems in England and gave the United States ideas for its own constitution and led to democracy and this was also published in 1690. Locke's achievements contributed to. bringing a new way of living to people, a new way of thinking and a way of surviving by saying that they can go through life with and without authority and they have the right to challenge the authority that is in charge of them. when they feel that they are not treated as people..