A Study On The Ideas Of Social Equality Of Rousseau

As an enlightenment thinker, Rousseau is the single most one to attention and research of the question of equal than anyone thinker in 18 century, also be the single most advocator for the rights of equality. Rousseau is the most greatness one of the advocator of the theory of equality rights, his theory about the question of freedom and equality not only move the center of the gravity of the thought of the enlightenment and the libertarianism with regard to think the connection of the freedom and equality, his ideas about the equality rights ends an era.In this fact,Rousseau is great. His spirits of pursuit the democracy,freedom and equality keeps the people on later Times hanging on forever.Rousseau describes in natural state, the natural person's nature is self-respect and mercy, and their hearts are no social status of our moral concept, the natural person is full equality and free, in a lonely and happiness the finer live. As human society entered into a state of, this natural equality disappeared, with person's "WanShanHua" ability's development, art and knowledge of generation, appeared between the inequality of generation, especially the emergence of private ownership, more make this social inequality become entrenched, autocratic monarchy system establishment reached the peak of social inequality. Rousseau in reflections on the enlightenment to sing great rational at the same time, more great pointed out that the private ownership is inequity roots. Rousseau with his genius' spontaneous thought of dialectics prediction and imagine when social inequality, after reaching a peak in the people's will get a violent overthrow it in general will, on the basis of a new theory of social contract concluded, with law and form a national sovereignty to ensure that the people directly and construct a kind of ideal social equality and achieve social condition in accordance with the natural law of people under the real justice, the concept of social equality. Rousseau thinks that only this with bands and sovereignty as the guarantee of social justice system, can then really realize the realization of human's freedom. But because of the sovereign, Rousseau writings bands and lawmakers concepts such as abstract hazy, lack of institutional and political practice, easy to grasp the name of autocratic borrow unanimous in reality, and hidden totalitarian undercurrent, so Rousseau equality between the ideas of freedom and exists some difficult to solve the contradictions and the paradox.Rousseau equality passion and the revolutionary spirit, not only for the later western social political change has great influence on later generations, and the equality of western thought also far-reaching influence. Rousseau's equality and both rich and to the current our country socialist harmonious society construction of significance of reference.