Researches On Rousseau’s Moral Aesthetic Thought Of "Return To Nature"

Instead of sinking to the bottom with history,the naturalistic thought in Rousseau’s book setting off a modern naturalistic thought again in nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties in the United States.Starting with the assumed natural state,discussing self love and compassion,Rousseau shows his characteristic philosophy system to us.Rousseau is also an “alien” in the Enlightenment thinkers,he openly oppose science and art to fight against the superstitious thought in Christianity and tyranny in Autocratic monarchy.“Return to nature” is the core of Rousseau’s thinking,it is also the most important part in his moral and aesthetic thoughts.As a moral culture of the common people,“nature”offers us a new aesthetic value and aesthetic dimension for people.So advocating natural,opposing civilization is the basic principle in Rousseau’s aesthetic view,it is also the solution which Rousseau offered us in aesthetic position for solving the alienation of problems in civilization.Research the question of“return to nature”thought,especially about moral and aesthetics helping us to lift the confusion of thinking,and provides new theoretical and practical significance to people’s happy life in the next development period in China.Start with studying the background and intention of Rousseau’s“return to nature”,this article mainly discusses why Rousseau want to “return to nature” and the idea of how to “return to nature”.Rousseau’s real intention is to reconstruct the moral and aesthetic fashion to establish a free,equal idea moral Republic.Under the popular background of social science and art,and the moral and aesthetic loss of bad consequences,Rousseau found the necessity of “return to nature” and urged people to“return to nature”.Subsequently,inquiry through his origin of social status,he found the way to “return to nature”:one way is building freedom and equality through the social contract theory to achieve the ideal state of “natural state”,the other way is to save the human nature which is rational and scientific,and to make the noble natural virtue and good aesthetic to be preserved through the moral emotion education.