How did individualism secularism and humanism affected the renaissance?

Individualism was a very prominent part of Renaissance living. The term Renaissance man talks of an individual who has skills in many fields and is really a great way of describing the power of individualism in the time period. People strove to be masters of all they did, and the individual flourished, leaving society in an attempt to keep up.

Secularism became had never really been a large factor in many European legal systems since Athens. With Europe only just emerging from its Feudal society in which trial by ordeal was so popular, the emergence of secularism into society was much needed in order for democracy to really plant its roots again. With the Catholic church losing power through the Protestant Reformation, and the now very active scholarly outlook on the world being analyzed more than the superstitions of religion, the separation of church from the state was a restarting point for democracy.

Humanism, and secularism go hand in hand in this time period. The strong humanist way of thinking and learning brought a new era of scholarship and inquiry instead of settling for the old religious ways of the past.

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