Pros And Cons Of Renaissance

Just like every coin has two sides, the period of renaissance had two sides – a good and a bad. Though it had some dark sides, one cannot deny that European renaissance was a period of growth and development. There was advancement in every aspect of human life, from human anatomy, science, technology to universe beyond. It was an era where man was rediscovered as an individual being and not just a product of church. It was a time when man could use his reason and logic to question what he is being told instead of blindly trusting it. It was a time when man discovered his own identity. Renaissance, "Rinascimento" (in Italian) the word literally means ‘re-birth’, but historians showed, it was not just limited to ‘the period of glory’, it was ‘sprit of creativity’ and ‘an era of enlightenment’. A classified scholar describes renaissance in two different but meaningful ways: “A rebirth of classical learning and knowledge through the rediscovery of ancient texts, and a rebirth of European culture in general” (anonymous, November 2002). The concept of renaissance considerably …show more content…
He claimed that ‘the sun’ is center of the universe, rather than ‘the earth’. This was huge revolution for that time, what some have called ‘Copernican Revolution’. This idea of earth being center of the universe was deeply rooted in society, and this discovery opened different questions to authority of the church. Thomas. S Kuhn states in his book that "The Copernican Revolution was a revolution of ideas, a transformation in man's conception of the universe and his own relation to it." and that the “Copernican revolution was not only a revolution of scientific theory, but of religious, and conceptual thought as well.” (Kuhn). Also from Benjamin Franklin to Steve jobs have been called ‘the renaissance men’, for having interests in different fields and creative innovations