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A short list of philosophical movements, in rough chronological order, starting where philosophy became distinct from theology during The Renaissance would include:

• The Renaissance itself, which mostly revived "classical" ancient Greek and ancient Roman[?] ideas. (From approximately
• The Enlightenment which focused attention firmly on reason and banished theology from its role as "the science of sciences" in most Protestant countries.
• French materialism
• German idealism (From approximately: 1780s with Kant)
• existentialism (From approximately: 1920s)
• logical positivism (From approximately: 1920s)
• subjectivism
• relativism
• postmodernism

Some postmodernists reject Number, set theory and logic as a means of making some or all philosophical distinctions, and accordingly seem to make a significant break with prior such Movements - perhaps to re-unify philosophy with theology as in medieval times, or to subordinate philosophy to cognitive science or political science.

Two other schools of this type are tribalism and medievalism[?], which see social trust as fundamental to ideas, and bodily risk as key to stable communities.

Also, many types of religious fundamentalism qualify as Philosophical Movements. They too reject mathematics as a neutral description of the whole universe, imply mass changes in periodic thought towards a common theme by a group of people, and are usually ethnic in origin and in character.