Rousseau’s Concept Of Religious Tolerance

Throughout western enlightenment thought, Rousseau is a great spiritual mentor, is oneof the most advanced thought pioneer in18th-century France. French was experiencing thebaptism of the revolution era, his liberty, equality and "sovereignty in people" and so on thepolitical philosophy view, the constitution has had a profound effect on capitalism. Therefore,the study of Rousseau’s theory and ideas never stopped. But in the study of Rousseau, thereligion part is often ignored by people. However, as an integral part of Rousseau’s ideology,namely his religious thought is of great significance, is worth our study. By readingRousseau’s thoughts, This article try to analysis the essence of the concept of religioustolerance, and to seek their significance to us today.Spiritual belief has always been a human a pinned to the outside world, especially in thechangeable and complicated social life, people are longing for to seek a state of mentalstability. The religious belief is a kind of typical performance. If, however, emphasize thereligious beliefs of single and tyranny, would lead to ideological intolerance. Person’sthoughts, however, is free, culture is diverse, the freedom and diversity should be respectedand protected. Rousseau is based on people’s freedom of thought, put forward the concept ofreligious tolerance. This paper is divided into the following several parts to interpretRousseau’s concept of religious tolerance:The first part, from personal life experience, problem consciousness, and RousseauRousseau the essence of the concept of religious tolerance that is freedom, equality conceptfrom three aspects, such as a continuation of the description of religious tolerance conceptbased on Rousseau, thus lead to the content of the article in the second part.The second part, mainly from the perspective of history, from two aspects of positive andnegative statements and analysis in the history of the concept of religious tolerance and theireffect on the impact of Rousseau’s concept of religious tolerance, find a view the historicalclues of religious tolerance. The third part, the concrete and carding Rousseau view the content of religious tolerance,mainly from Rousseau’s emotional religion, classification of the dual critique of atheism andChristianity, religion, and contract theory from four aspects, such as Rousseau view theorybasis and main content of religious tolerance.The fourth part, the suitable bearing above, to explore the value and limitation ofRousseau’s concept of religious tolerance. Rousseau’s view of the value of religious tolerance,mainly from the law of the influence of Kant’s moral theology and balance paper expoundstwo aspects such as the order value and freedom value. Rousseau’s view of the limitations ofreligious tolerance, rational in Rousseau’s view of the contradiction between religioustolerance, tolerance limits, the bondage of idealism in the religious paper expounds threeaspects.The conclusion part, overview and summary of full text, extracting tolerance connotationand value of the keywords, to emphasize the current state, the society and individuals stillneed the virtues of tolerance.