Man was no longer limited in life, man was able to improve life through the use of reason (Bristow, 2010). This era is associated with French philosophers such as Voltaire and Mostesquieu and the group known as the Encyclopedists (Bristow, 2010). Besides this French group, another person played a key role in ethics during this time period, his name was David Hume (Bristow, 2010). David Hume established one of the foundations of secular ethics, that people do well because the results are pleasant (Ryan-Harshman, 2014). After science, the era of romanticism was full of changes in philosophy, Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species and the Descent of Man, challenging the ideals of the church. These changes created utilitarianism, a branch of ethics, which focuses on consequences, where every individual has equal moral importance (Ryan-Harshman,