Main contents: criticizing absolutism and religious power; Call for the abolition of absolute monarchy, aristocratic privilege and hierarchy, and pursue political democracy, equal rights and individual freedom.

1, strongly criticized the feudal autocracy and its spiritual pillar, the Catholic church, and provided ideological and theoretical preparation for the bourgeoisie to gain dominance;

I have made full mental preparation for the coming French Revolution and provided a powerful ideological weapon.

3. The feudal ruling ideology wavered in the European continent, forcing the Western European emperors to change their ruling style, which had a far-reaching impact on the European bourgeois revolution and the American War of Independence.

4. The works of the Enlightenment were introduced to China and other countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, which inspired the resistance movement of the people in Asia, Africa and Latin America and the colonies.

Extended data:

Humanism developed in the Enlightenment, advocating rational criticism, acknowledging human rationality and denying God's will, in fact, denying royal power and religious power.

The Enlightenment advocated human rationality, opposed authority and blind obedience, demanded the liberation of human nature and individual freedom, and opposed feudal privileges and autocracy, which was the inheritance and development of humanism.

A series of bourgeois political principles advocated by the Enlightenment, such as natural human rights, separation of powers and sovereignty in the people, are also based on freedom, equality and human rights.

Therefore, the enlightenment thought and humanism in the Renaissance are in the same strain, and the goal of criticism is the same. The purpose is to arouse people's awakening and serve the bourgeoisie.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-enlightenment