Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom"is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.Historically, "philosophy" encompassed any body of knowledge.
philosophers of our time,
Modern philosophy is philosophy developed in the modern era and associated with modernity. It is not a specific doctrine or school (and thus should not be confused with Modernism), although there are certain assumptions common to much of it, which helps to distinguish it from earlier philosophy.
Renaissance philosophers[edit]
Pico della Mirandola
Nicolas of Cusa
Giordano Bruno
Galileo Galilei
Niccolò Macchiavelli