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Analysis The Female Conception Of Rousseau

Posted on:2010-08-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J H LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360275955957Subject:Ethics
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In recent years,"Feminism" as a hotspot was familiar to people gradually.Since it appeared,"feminism" has been an ambiguity and disputed concept.The most controversial and influence on the feminist is the theorist Rousseau.Rousseau's natural rights theory for feminism provided the initial source of thought and theoretical origin,while Rousseau's Patriarchy idea also have been severely criticized by feminist scholars,especially the liberal feminism.Hence,a systematic research and interpretation on a female view of Rousseau has important theoretical and practical significance.Rousseau,through self-love and compassion of humanity,natural philosophy and natural rights theory has laid a solid foundation and strong on its view of women.On this basis,with the comparison of both sexes,he summed up a set of different men's,suitable women's education contents and methods,and described women's marriage attitude.Rousseau's concept of women has characteristics of affection,contradictions and conservation.Rousseau believes that self-love and compassion are the basic requirements of people.In the process of discussion the problem of women,Rousseau based on the natural order in nature to look for love and compassion from a kind heart,as a natural foundation of women's concept.Rousseau based on emotional stances to consider questions of human nature.As one of the main representative of the French Enlightenment,Rousseau on the one hand,recognized women's dignity and value,and praised women;On the other hand,under the guidance of man's right and based on the theory of human nature,he concluded purpose and direction of culture good wife,which resulted in the contradictory of his theory content.Rousseau is called for "igniting the modern women's movement" and posed thoughts, such as "natural rights","men's equal when born",which caused a huge reaction in society at that time,and promoted the development of the women's movement.He also got feminists Ellen Key's support.At the same time,his rich natural color view of women was also criticized by Mary Wollstonecraft,representative of liberal feminist.Rousseau's concept for the evaluation of women should stand on the analysis of the position of the Marxist critical. This article consists of four parts.The introduction illustrated research of the concept of women stated Rousseau,pointed out that the research of theoretical and practical significance, explained the origin of topics,and gave an account of the main research methods.This article wants to do a more comprehensive and complete understanding of Rousseau's concept of women.The research ideas in this article are as follows:The first part is background and theory preparation of Rousseau's female concept,and gives an account of Rousseau's concept of women's social background,the thought background and theoretical preparation.First of all is the introduction of Rousseau's life,and then gives an account of the social background and ideological background of Rousseau's concept of women,and furthermore I clarify the theoretical foundation of Rousseau's concept of women,including self-love and sympathy for the theory of human nature,"back to nature" and the talent say on human rights.The second part is the interpretation of Rousseau's female view.In this partâ… elaborate the contents of Rousseau's concept of women,they are the similarities and differences between men and women,and female education and female marriage.Concept of gender similarities and differences between men and women,including both sexes similarities and differences, female education,including education,the aim of education as well as education.The third part is the impact of Rousseau's concept of women to feminism.There are both critical and inheritance to Rousseau's concept of women.The forth part is the evaluation and enlightenment of Rousseau's concept of women.First of all,in this partâ… describe the characteristics of Rousseau's concept of women,there are the emotional argument,and the position of the contradictory nature and purpose of the conservative three characteristics.And I stand on the Marxist position and evaluate Rousseau's concept of women,thus reasoning that the modern concept of female Rousseau and Enlightenment values.That is the end-result of this paper,and reflects the importance of practical significance of a study on Rousseau's concept of women.
Keywords/Search Tags:Rousseau, feminism, nature, the concept of women
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