What did philosophers believe that knowledge had the power to do?
-improve mankind
-solve the world’s problems
-end social inequality
-abolish tyranny

All of the alternatives can be considered the right answer to this question.

Explanation:

Philosophers believed that with knowledge people were able to do anything and that includes improving humanity, solving world problems, ending social inequality, and ending tyranny.

For philosophers there was no limit to knowledge, there was nothing impossible with the use of the right knowledge for the right question.

That is why it is not possible to choose just one alternative from your question as the correct answer, because every alternative fits in with what philosophers believed that knowledge could do.

what is it then either b or d not just both bc you just messing up everybody else who trying to get this done

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