Locke Limited Government Ideology And Value

With the development of reform and opening and the continuous complement of socialist market economic system, diversification trend has been showing in all aspects of our society. So, it will become the internal nature and necessary trend for building modernization with chinese characteristics to explore the limited government theories which will be coordinate with the rules of the market economic system.In the exploration process of building limited government, we should not only summarize the experiences and lessones in the political reform in China several decades, but also absorb the achievements of the advanced political civilization in the west. John. Locke, the famous philosopher and political thinker during the England bourgeois revolution period in the seventeenth century, has given a systematic exposition of the limited government in his masterpiece on government which proceeds from the "natural state" theory and analyses the origins of government's power, the aim of the existence of the government and division and restriction of the state power, and so on. Although the limited government theory has its own historical limitations at that time, it is necessary for us to have a further research for it. Locke's thought has profound theoretical and practical values to build a limited government with Chinese characteristics and a harmonious socialist society. Under guidance of research method between dialectical materialism and historical materialism, using the historical background and theoretical framework of his thought as the basis, the writer tries to have a deeply interpretation into Locke's limited government ideology. By profoundly interpretating and reviewing Locke's ideology including the limitation of the governmental authority, the power relations and the power principles, according to the problems existing in our government management, the writer tries to find out the references for the reform of management mode of government in the future by designing the construction path of Chinese limited government.