When1: 1690
When2: 1800
Who: Enlightenment or Age of Reason
What: philosophy
Where: Europe
Detail: In Enlightenment, metaphysics declined in favor of studying practical questions, order, and structure. The Enlightenment depended on Cartesian and Terminist ideas. Hartley, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Scottish School were in England. Bayle, Voltaire, Encyclopedists, and Rousseau were in France. Berlin Academy, Leibniz, and Wolff were in Germany.
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