well, talking about old EU government it might come to our mind that there existed absolute oligarchy and church state. the movements of enlightenment were vast and variable and mostly wnating the same thing with dofferent names and labels... however in details distinctions might be noticeable within those movenents. BTW democracy and liberty were the main ideas bearing individualism, new rights for voting government rules and so on. and humanism which is put in philosophical category has been the idea of seperating and making a dichotomy towards the church and the state of government and believing that the rules of govs are not from God but are chosen by men. all these are evolved and changed in some and many ways and this topic provides immense descrintions which requires reading several books... I hope have answered your Q.
