TURNING POINTS IN HISTORY
Anti Intellectual Ideas and Communism and imperialism
But alas! Man did not fully understand the importance in Philosophical terms what he had achieved. Science had developed. Religion had lost its political power but mysticism, the unknown nature of life and existence, that which haunted man all along his history, still remained in man, and a series of modern philosophers came on the scene and said that if god is not, then nothing is certain.
The world is unknowable, as such, and a thinker, the most influential of the modern philosophers, KANT, said that we can never know reality because we were bound by our senses. The reality was seen with the lenses of our senses and THAT IS WHY we can never know reality. Such a grotesque attack was unchallenged and he did it in the name of enlightenment!
Notice that most of the later philosophers and writers couldn't leave the "otherworldly" beliefs.
It is still true, even today.
Slowly ....in a century or two, in Philosophy this came to be accepted and many other Philosophers too said equally absurd things denying that man had a mind at all and that we were living in a world!!
Philosophy reached a dead end, and during this time, a social, political and economical model came into popularity called communism and socialism.
This was done by Marx. Marx said that the state should rule men, that capitalism was evil, and in fact this was brought into reality in soviet Russia by the Russian revolution.
By this time many countries had formed and the industrial revolution had taken place and the British empire had conquered many lands. Man had not yet understood, that conquest is unnecessary and political power and economic power are different.