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Research On Naturalistic Philosophy Of Rousseau's Thought

Posted on:2010-02-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360272998833Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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As an ancient philosophical concept, Naturalism is not only a special kind of research methods but also a belief in the world. As the same of other philosophical ideas, the naturalistic philosophy has gone through a long process of development and at different stages of developing show different characteristics. There is a lot of naturalism studying at home and abroad, but it is few from the analysis of natural philosophy apart from the thought of Rousseau's thought except the Rousseau's natural education. Rousseau's natural philosophy is a stage in the development of natural philosophy, it reflects a special history and thoughts. Rousseau is a well-known initiation thinker in France in the 18th century, he received a huge result in the aspect of philosophy, education, social politics and so on. In this paper, Rousseau's philosophic theory, as well as his naturalism philosophic theory which used in the aspect of education, society, politics and so on are studied. And this article has also analyzed the significance and value of Rousseau's naturalism thought.First of all, the article is from the definition, the characteristics and the history of the nature to carry out the inspection of the naturalism. Different from the other philosophies the meaning of naturalism is ambiguous and inaccurate. This article came from the cleaning up for the west philosophy theory, and analysis the conclusion of home and abroad. From this basis, the paper receives a definition of natural philosophy from ontology, epistemology, methodology, and values. This definition points out that the core of naturalism is studying nature, human and society by the naturalism. In order to understand the definition of natural philosophy better, and analyze Rousseau's natural philosophy, the article on the natural characteristics and the nature of the analysis, pointing out that the materialism, positivism, and empiricism, has the same point and differences. The naturalism has a long history, this paper point out that there are different methods in different stages of the historic development.The second part of the article focuses on Rousseau's idea of natural philosophy. It is on two levels, which is the natural philosophy of Rousseau's idea generated by the premise and its connotations. It is mainly from the historical background, the life experiences of a previous idea of the inheritance and development to analyze the precondition of the thought Rousseau's thought is the product of a particular historical period, based on the French Enlightenment thought in the history of sports background, at this time, it is the rise of the bourgeoisie, increasingly decadent feudal rule, the obvious contradiction between the society of the turning point of history in Europe Such a certain social background, for the unique life experiences, Rousseau's idea is very different from other contemporary thinkers; Rousseau did not receive the complete school education, but he had read many books and self-taught. On the basis of criticizing and inheriting previous thought, Rousseau developed his philosophy of naturalism. Rousseau's natural content of Marxist philosophy is the idea of natural philosophy in the light of the definition and nature of thought on the basis of the characteristics discussed, mainly from natural philosophy, the experience of feeling natural to analyze three aspects of human nature. Rousseau's natural philosophy is naturalism, and he recognized the material concept of the unity of the material world, material is not dependent on people's senses and the existence of the object thinking and actions of people want the development in accordance with the laws of nature.Rousseau's emphasis on sensory experience of the importance of experience and experiment, that the natures of things are the basic objective and recognize the basic premise. Jean-Jacques Rousseau the natural theory of human nature is the essential idea of the theory, he insisted that people are basically good, that the natural state of people is the most natural nature people person.Rousseau's theory which is social theory and education have the outstanding achievements into a system and more significant impact. His thoughts and his philosophies are the ideas of mutual contact. The third part of this article introduces Rousseau's social and political thought and education, and trying to through his analysis of political and educational thought to study his naturalist philosophy. Rousseau's political thought is built on the basis of the theory of human nature and the natural law, its main study is the relationship between people and society. On the basis of Original, Rousseau's natural education is going to cultivate a natural person, and the natural instinct of children to adapt to the development of a set of educational theory. Rousseau's natural stages of the educational theory and then object to the feudal revolution in education, as well as the subsequent development of educational theory have great significance.The last part of this article is the evaluation of naturalism and Rousseau's thinking. It can be from the reasonable, limitations and its significance to analyze naturalism. Naturalism has a part of reasonable and also has its limitation, the study of naturalism and the study of Marxism as well as specific scientific research is of great significance. The analysis on Rousseau's idea of natural philosophy from the evaluation of research, the research carried out its own evaluation from philosophical, political, and educational aspects. Rousseau's philosophy political thinking and Naturalist educational thinking have an important impact on the historical status, and have a research and reference now.
Keywords/Search Tags:naturalism, materialism, empiricism, theory of human nature
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