On The Cultural Philosophy Of Rousseau 's View Of Human Nature

Since mankind entered the civilized society, the development and change of the human nature has been discussed by philosophers. Rousseau is one of the most outstanding representative enlightenment thinkers. He is the master of modern western humanism research, social contract thought, his theory occupies an important position in the history of Western thought. With the change of human nature, human nature is to restrict the development of throughout his philosophy theory, which is an important part of his theory research. Rousseau’s view of human nature, is mainly embodied in his book "social contract theory", "democracy and equality", "on the origin of inequality",these were leading to the goodness of the theme of the view of human nature, Rousseau believes that human nature is freedom, freedom is the most sublime ability of all humans.For Rousseau’s view of human nature from the perspective of cultural philosophy interpretation and analysis, the article is divided into the following parts: the first parts summarizes the background of Rousseau’s concept of human nature; the main content of the second part is an overview of Rousseau’s view of human nature; the third part discusses Rousseau’s human nature interpretation of the philosophy of culture; the fourth part summarizes the evaluation of Rousseau’s view of human nature. Because Rousseau thought itself broad and complex, in which the perspective to study and understand Rousseau’s thought is very important. Based on the perspective of cultural philosophy to re-examine Rousseau’s view of human nature, which has a profound theoretical significance and realistic development,and the theory of human nature causes a profound influence. His theory is different from the economic analysis on the alienation of the production field which was established by Marx, it analysis the causes of the alienation of human nature and Rousseau was the first thinker who has the perspective of modern civilization about the study on modern human history.