time of change
The enlightenment was a great time of change in both Europe and America. ... Writers during this time focused on optimism, which is the opinion to do everything for the best (Chaney 119), and the best for these philosophers was to stretch the minds of the ordinary. ... In addition to his thinking, he also spent a lot of time lecturing at Konigsberg, Martin Knutzen. ... Kant feels that this is hard to obtain because people need a political balance but at the same time they need to be able to keep their freedom. ... For most of the philosophers during the time of the Enlightenment, things were bad. ... The Enlightenment was a time of change but it was also a time that dealt with the "unreality" that some thought could be but never were because some were so extreme or contradicted each other from philosopher to philosopher.