Age of Endarkenment

The Age of Endarkenment is a colloquialism which appeared in the 18th century and denotes a philosophical disagreement with the implication of the term the Enlightenment, that mankind was indeed benefited by its new philosophical and specifically metaphysical approach to describing reality. The term expresses resentment of the use of the term "enlightenment" usually because of its withdrawal of support for the Aristotelean system of causality, which includes material causes, formal causes, efficient causes and final causes.