The Study On Hobbs's Citizen Rights Thoughts

Hobbes was hailed as the father of modern Political philosophy by Strauss. Hobbes raised natural rights with unparalleled clarity, and individual's reasonable request became the basis of political philosophy. Here, Hobbes achieved the across from the classical political philosophy to modern political philosophy. His political thought contains the origin of modern political design, which brought out a revolutionary transform for the modern Political philosophy. All of the achievements laid his pioneer status of political philosophy.Hobbes's political philosophy is based on the theoretical system of the state of nature, on this basis, the individual was rescued from the eternal order of the traditional nature, and restored to be the independent atomic individuals. Hobbes reconstructed the human nature in terms of individual units in the nature state, denying the highest good: goodness, which respected widely by medieval scholars and existed over two thousand years since ancient Greece. Then, Hobbes rejected the traditional assumptions of Aristotle about the political and social properties, who claimed that man is born as political animals. This two important views were established to be the theory base of his political philosophy. According to the discussion of the natural property that people are born with the freedom and equality, Hobbes came out the conclusion that everyone is a individual with all the original natural rights. On the basis of equal rights of the natural, together with the medium of the social contract who's content is transferring the rights as well as granting the powers. Hobbes's political society system -civil society was established. In here,the transition from a natural person to citizenship was completed at the same time, and the individual natural rights to citizen rights, private rationality to public reason also can be completed. Through the formulating of state laws, Hobbes clarified the relationship of the rights between the national power and the civil right, the civil ethics and the legal order were formed after that. So a solid social foundation has been laid for the generation and development of civil rights.Although some theories have been suspected repeatedly against the nature rights and social contract, but the conceptions that the natural rights convert into civil rights and civil liberties, the social contract evolve as political agreement, are still the main political ideas and dominant among political way of thinking in the West. It can be said that Hobbes's natural right ideas had already provided a new expression for promoting the individual rights in the political society. The modern theory of the political right path started by the natural right ideas is affecting the development and direction of modern political thinking. Hobbes's thought beyond the era and his state, became a monument that the later political thinkers can't bypass.