Analysis Of Rousseau’sPolitical Philosophy

This article explores the ideas of Rousseau modern democratic republic ofthe crisis generated by the understanding and treatment. Modern thinking is aproduct of modern democratic republican political philosophy. Therefore, thispaper briefly describes the generation of modern political philosophy,development and crisis. Machiavelli called the pioneer of modern politicalphilosophy. He proposed a non-moral political views, which opened themodern political philosophy and political philosophy in ancient break. Hobbesis the establishment of a modern natural law theory, which is a democraticrepublic and laid the theoretical foundation of legitimacy. According to histheory of natural state, in the state of nature, all men are equal, it is thebiggest desire is desire for self-preservation. People enter the politicalcommunity is to meet the desire to protect themselves, or that the state andgovernment to ensure that the rights of self-preservation of the natural man.Locke Hobbes in succession under the premise the idea to do a littlemodification. His desire for self-preservation will become unrestricted desire toacquire wealth, so people into the political and social contract entered into inorder to protect property rights and the greatest degree of growth in wealth.Locke then there is a main line of development, political life is a moral goalshould be to replace the non-moral proposition, but Locke’s doctrine ofeconomic solutions are successfully completed Machiavelli raised fromMachiavelli to Hobbes proposition. According to the modern theory of non-commercial State this political moralism built up people’s moral collapse,leading to a downgrading of people, and so lose the nexus between the Staterelied on the existence of a stable interpersonal. Rousseau triggered fiercecriticism. Rousseau stood on the ancient city-state with a moral stance onmodern commercial country criticize, but Rousseau did not stay here, but togo further, back to the natural state. Rousseau accepted the pioneers ofmodern political philosophy in accordance with the principles of modernnatural science and social origins of political thinking, and the principle ofcomplete, natural persons are times people come to the conclusion is therefore natural freedom and equality, happiness lies in its natural freedom,which he laid all political systems are the basis of the proposed viewpoint ofhuman bondage. He proposed the theory of sovereignty in general will of thepeople and to ensure the freedom and equality of citizens. Although Rousseaualso believes that the foundation of civil society ’s desire to protect themselves,but the desire is not sufficient as contact people ties, so legislators proposedthe idea to focus on personal interests of citizens into a concern for the publicinterest. The sovereignty of the people according to his thinking, thegovernment became fully sovereign derivatives, the government should fullyobey the general will. Finally, he made four special system protect the peopleBureaucracy, Bureaucracy dictatorship, Ombudsman system and civic religion,democratic republic as protection and support. Rousseau’s democraticrepublic Although designed to protect the freedom of citizens, but the citizens’freedom and freedom of individuals is still a constraint compared to this form ofgovernment or society can not meet some of the same people as Rousseau,who Civil society can only be left alone life.