Both the Enlightenment and Romantic thinkers believed that the individual self is very important. …show more content…
Enlightenment thinkers believed that constitutional monarchies and republics allowed the people to express their wants, but still keep order in society. Romantics believed that the law centered society does not allow people to embrace nature to their fullest capabilities and that restrict the relationship that people can have with themselves and others.
One of the biggest differences in the Romantic and Enlightenment ideas is how they thought a person should base their thoughts and actions on. Enlightenment people believed that on should base their actions on reasoning and science. But, romantics believed that actions and thoughts should be based on emotion and feelings which stem from nature. Enlightenment people believed romantics were chaotic and irrational, but romantics thought that Enlighten thinkers were oppressive and distant.
Romantic and Enlightenment thinkers had ideas that were similar but the majority of their thinking was not alike. Similarly they believed that individuality was important, and science could only be understood to a certain extent. But they disagreed on ideas such as experimenting, societal issues and personal thought. Like any other groups of strong minded people, they had their similarities and