From The Natural State To Harmonious Society

Rousseau was the great thinker and philosopher of French in 18th century. In Rousseau's view, natural state, social status and ideal state is a necessary process of development of human society. He enthusiastically sing the praises natural state that it was mankind's golden era, the drawbacks of a civilized society to the relentless criticism and pointed out that private ownership is the root of all evil, a symbol of a civilized society: science and art on the one hand brought the enjoyment of human material , but it also has brought moral decline. Of course, human beings can not return to the natural state, even if return to the so-called natural state ,human beings will not be happy, but the natural state for human construction of an ideal society is the role of a reference.Rousseau's life in the pursuit of a just, equality, freedom and sovereignty of the people of a harmonious society. He harmonious society's thinking mainly embodied in his general will . In his view, the general will always fair, always with the common people and the fundamental interests of the community so that the general will lose the natural human freedom, but the freedom of access to a community that is "bound by a consensual freedom"; consensual is the embodiment of the people's sovereignty.To achieve such a harmonious society, he thought to be carried out in two ways construction: on the one hand is the establishment of the rule of law reflect the consensual society, on the one hand is the rebuilding of civil ethics.Rousseau's vision for building a socialist harmonious society today and achieving reasonable health of human civilization to the development of important reference.