19th-century
philosophy
In
the 18th century the philosophies
of The Enlightenment began to
have a dramatic effect, the landmark
works of philosophers such as
Immanuel Kant and Jean-Jacques
Rousseau influencing a new generation
of thinkers. In the late 18th
century a movement known as Romanticism
sought to combine the formal rationality
of the past, with a greater and
more immediate emotional and organic
sense of the world. Key ideas
that sparked this change were
evolution, as postulated by Erasmus,
Darwin and Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe, and what might now be
called emergent order, such as
the free market of Adam Smith.
Pressures for egalitarianism,
and more rapid change culminated
in a period of revolution and
turbulence that would see philosophy
change as well.
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