Rousseau's Alienation Thought

Since the 18th century, the alienation question has become one of theimportant problems of philosophy; after the 20th century, the alienationquestion became the focus of academia again. What we face in 21st centuryor various kinds of crises that we will face soon are closely related tothe alienation problem. So, studying the early raiser---Rousseau'salienation thought, has important theory significance and practice meaning.The subject of this text is composed of three parts as following:The aim of this thesis's first part is mainly to explain Rousseau'salienation historical background, thought origin and the influence thatthe special experience of life to the alienation thought's proposition.The realistic foundation of Rousseau's alienation thought lies on theautocratic rule of France in the 18th century, the enslavement and povertyof the social life, and the development of natural science, especially thegeneral degenerate of morals, in addition to the experience in decades ofroam life. The natural state of the Natural law school and theory of thesocial contract, the ethical attention of the Stoic school and the priormethods and criticizing spirit of Descartes and Pascal have exerted greatinfluence on the forming of Rousseau's alienation thought.Second part briefly elucidates and analyzes systematically thestructure of Rousseau's alienation thought. The thesis defines brieflyRousseau's "alienation"concept at first: with the progress each timeof the civilized society, there comes along the degrade of mankind oncein morals;it makes man alien and takes the loss of the existence valueand human 's own natural instinct as cost. And then, the thesis probes intothe logic prerequisite of Rousseau's alienation thought in detail --naturalstate hypothesis, logic gradual progress --the alienation of social stateand logic conclusion --the overcoming of alienation. Rousseau firstlyassumed a kind of free, equal and sweet natural state as the ideal object...