Natural State Secret

Rousseau was a debatable figure .It was said in his works there appeared at times contradictions, the biggest one among which was the conflict between returning to the nature and coming back to the city. The antinomy showed us much the rupture between A discourse on inequality and The social contract when reading Rousseau's.Whether the facticity of the state of nature of Rousseau's was controversial for many years. It has been early that Rousseau's works were treated this way, taking A discourse on inequality for example, which had been tartly attacked by Voltaire, who said he would never go back to the creeper era. Some thought the state of nature was just a hypothesis and didn't exist in the history at all; some believed that the state of nature was authentic, that is Rousseau had tried to prove its authenticity; others supposed by his charming description Rousseau had wished to call people back to the primitive condition by alienating the civilization. In sum, people assumed the way that human being had originated from determined the characters and contents of natural rights. But it was just on the design of such pure natural state that learners criticized each other, as if all of the disasters of the society had been caused by some single philosopher.In this article I'd like to lay a strong emphasis on the teased "state of nature". We should return to the classic text of A discourse on inequality to apprehend Rousseau's idea of "state of nature" in his context and his thread, so as to discover its true value for us and comprehend the legality of our indispensable civil order nowadays. My writing was deeply enlightened by the exegetic tradition of the Straus school, but less resembled on detailed elucidation and more followed Kant and Hegel instead. Therefore on the field of research, the modern political philosophic tradition, that is, the school of natural law and the discourse of social contract were involved in my observation.In my opinion, Rousseau's discussion of state of nature was...