Similarities Between The Renaissance And The Enlightenment

The transformation from the medieval world into the early modern world can be best represented through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, both of which were major recurring themes and had influence on numerous events that occurred throughout the early modern period.
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that originally began in Italy in the end of the medieval period and later spread throughout northwestern Europe, marking the beginning of the early modern period (PWH, p. 496). As such, the Renaissance can be seen as a bridge between the medieval and early modern periods. The Renaissance promoted the ideas of humanism and individualism, which involves being more interested in scientific explanations using rational thoughts rather than
This form of absolutism eventually led to the American Revolution, the first of many revolutions which tried to abolish an absolute monarchy in the early modern period.
Furthermore, In “The Social Order and Absolute Monarchy,” written by enlightenment thinker, Jean Domat, Domat tries to justify the absolutism portrayed by King Louis XIV by arguing that absolutism was created in the best interest of France and that obeying the king is like obeying God, from who the king stems all of his power. In contrast to Domat, John Locke, author of the Second Treatise of Government was completely against absolutism and believed that no person has to right to be “subjected to the political power of another without his own consent” (Locke, p.