 The Enlightenment and the colonial era both changed the nature of European philosophy and exported it worldwide.Devotion and subservience to God were largely replaced by notions of inalienable natural rights and the potentialities of reason, and universal ideals of love and compassion gave way to civic notions of freedom, equality, and citizenship.The meaning of life changed as well, focusing less on humankind's relationship to God and more on the relationship between individuals and their society.