On Republican Civic Virtue Thought Of Rousseau

In Rousseau’s life, Liberalism has developed rapidly in the field of political philosophy. Protecting individual freedom and rights is appeal to liberalism.But it takes civic virtue lightly.This academic logic into political practice would inevitably lead to sluggish or even loss of civic virtue and citizenship illusory.Rousseau did not join them when liberalism was very popular. But upstream, he stood alone in the republican camp which pointed up civic virtue and try his best to call for civic virtue.Perhaps Rousseau was extraordinary,and it made his theory not only did not lose their luster with the passage of time but aslo even more dazzling.This paper selected Rousseau’s political philosophy as the analytic object, and embrace closely around the theme of civil virtue through the integrated application of literature analysis, system analysis, specification analysis,comparative analysis and normative research methods.It took the limitation of liberal negative citizens as a perspective,and revealed that citizen self-interest was expanding and publicity was shrinking.They were in a state of imbalance and to pave the way for Rousseau’s critique of republicanism.And then, based on the social background, This paper pointed that Rousseau epressed his crticism by deouncing the instrumental rationality and money first that shielded civic virtue. However,Rousseau’s criticism and opinions was not like water without source, and a tree without roots. Through both horizontal and vertical aspects, This paper based on time, sorted out and analyzed the source of theoretical and practical demonstration to show Rousseau’s Origins which was abundant and diverse. On this basis, I studied profoundly and integrated carefully Rousseau’s literature and reconsolidation,and On this basis, according to Rousseau’s depth study of a large number of literature and reconsolidation, and discuss the true meaning of republican civic virtue, trying to outline the original appearance of civic virtue. that Rousseau aspired to. Following, through the "legislators" moralizing and "political participation" tempering, the path to ideal civic virtue were generated. Finally, I was faithful to Rousseau’s ideology and pull out the theory itself. Based on the objective and speculative position and comprehensive dialysis, This paper has evaluated honestly Rousseau’s republicanism citizenship virtue thought.Despite the passage of time, Rousseau’s republicanism civic virtue thinking still has a timeless value. Based on the reality that Chinese current citizens lack virtue and the need of building civil society, Rousseau’s republicanism civic virtue thought might be able to provide inspiration and benefit for resolving the difficulties encountered in the process of The citizen moral construction in China.It could promote the process of political modernization in China, give birth to the civic awareness, enhance civic virtue, and build the civil society.And thus It could create a favorable environment for the development of public order and harmony to provide many references.