Modern philosophy

Modern philosophy begins with the revival of skepticism and the rise of Modern philosophy science. Philosophy in this period centers on the relation between experience and reality the ultimate origin of knowledge the nature of the mind and its relation to the body the implications of the new natural sciences for free will and god and the emergence of a secular basis for moral and political philosophy.

 Main figures of this period include Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, Rousseau, Hume, and Kant. Chronologically, this era begins in the 17^th and 18^th centuries and is generally considered to end with Kant’s systematic attempt to reconcile Newtonian physics with traditional metaphysical topics.