Rousseau's Romanticism

Any thoughts are the results under certain historical conditions. Rousseau's romanticism is certainly not an exception. When enlightened thinkers, represented by Voltair, took reason as supremacy in the French Enlightenment in the 18th century, Rousseau pointed out that reason was not omnipotent. He regarded morality and emotion, not science and reason as criterion of society and individual, and concluded that emotion was superior to science while morality to science. So he advocated"Go back to the nature", demonstrating a strong tendency of romanticism. Rousseau's romanticism permeated all fields of his thoughts and theories. In the field of philosophy, it manifested as the feeling- empiricism which emphasizes feeling and perceptual. In the field of religion and morality, it manifested as nature- religion based on morality, conscience and natural emotion. In the field of society and history, it manifested as the conception of social history of "Go back to the nature". In the field of politics, it manifested as equally ideal state based on morality. In the field of education, it manifested as cultivating perfect people in his morally ideal state by"natural education", While in the field of literacy, it manifested as upholding pure nature, singing the praises of sincere emotion and free personality of ego.Rousseau's romanticism made him surmount the Enlightenment and become"Father of the Romantic Movement"because of his initiation of Romantic Movement. This thought gained reaction both in history and in reality.Even today, when scientific reason is too powerful, the study of Rousseau's romanticism still has strong practiced significance. Only realizing the harmony and unity of emotion and reason, human beings can step into new century in healthy and civilized way.