Many influential philosophers of the enlightenment were scientists. How was scientific way of thinking different from how most people thought at the time

Enlightenment era.

Explanation:

The enlightenment ideas were a collection of philosophical views in vogue among the intellectuals during the eighteenth century. Enlightenment in people lives stressed on universal laws, thereby rejecting supernatural. Scientific methods advocated for studying human activities as well as natural phenomena.  It was an attempt to free the human mind from superstitious. Human conduct observed as something which could be changed and not something immutable.

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.