Answer: In the Renaissance, the seed of discovery and knowledge was the appreciation for reason and logic. These two disciplines bloomed in the period of the Enlightenment as well as industrialization. The Enlightenment, (17–18th centuries) science, mathematics, and technology were the core of human interest and activity. This is how the Enlightenment was different from the renaissance.
Thomas Jefferson used the thoughts first penned by John Locke while writing the Declaration of Independence. The phrase "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness," was an idea first considered by Locke in his Two Treatises on Government.
