A panoramic survey of the philosophical landscape of the Enlightenment period (1648 - 1789), covering the sense of selfhood, art and aesthetics, morality, social theory, science of history, religion and faith during that period. The advent of modern science, particularly the mechanism of Newtonian theory, knocked down many of the medieval concepts about the cosmos, Providence, creation and human's place in the world, and ushered in rationalism as the mainstream thinking of the Enlightenment period. This does not mean key thinkers in this period were of one or similar stripe. They held different, and sometimes diametrical, views. Louis Dupre summarizes and comments on the views of key philosophical figures in this period, including Locke, Hume, Diderot, Rousseau, Leibniz, Lessing, Spinoza, Kant, and many others. The text is somewhat dense, especially for the uninitiated, but it is definitely accessible. Overall, it is a very good survey of the philosophical views of the period.

对启蒙时期（1648-1789年）的哲学景观进行全景式考察，涵盖该时期的自我意识、艺术和美学、道德、社会理论、历史科学、宗教和信仰。现代科学的出现，特别是牛顿理论的机制，打倒了许多中世纪关于宇宙、天主、创造和人类在世界中的地位的概念，并迎来了理性主义作为启蒙时期的主流思想。这并不意味着这一时期的主要思想家都是一个或类似的风格。他们持有不同的观点，有时甚至是截然不同的观点。路易斯-杜普雷总结并评论了这一时期主要哲学人物的观点，包括洛克、休谟、狄德罗、卢梭、莱布尼兹、莱辛、斯宾诺莎、康德等人。该文本有些密集，特别是对不熟悉的人来说，但它绝对是可以理解的。总的来说，它是对这一时期的哲学观点的一次很好的调查。