Democratic Thought In Rousseau's Social Contract Theory

Rousseau is a well-known bourgeois enlightenment thinker of the 18th century in France,which has a great achievement in democratic theory and a master of democratic theory.He is known as the father of modern democracy.Depth understanding and study of Rousseau's sovereignty in the people and other democratic ideas,is conducive to promoting the process of socialist democratization in China.Democracy is a frequent new topic,and the debate about it has never stopped.Although democracy has long existed,but after thousands of years of practical revision and theoretical elaboration,today's democracy and ancient times,modern democracy has been very different.How to realize the development of democratic theory in accordance with the change of the times is still the subject that the academic circles should study and study deeply.Therefore,this article from the pursuit of Rousseau's life and the current social status of the beginning to explore the source of Rousseau's democratic ideas.The first part of this paper focuses on the practical significance of the contemporary study of Rousseau's democratic ideology and the current research on Rousseau's democratic ideology both at home and abroad.The second part of the paper introduces the life situation of Rousseau and the social situation of France at that time.Rousseau,who had been mourning after his death,had been persecuted by the authorities,defamed the defamation of his friends,poisoned by public opinion,and tried hardships of life.The third part of the thesis focuses on the main sources of Rousseau's thought.Boudin was the first thinker to discuss the nature of sovereignty systematically,and was known as the starting point of modern theory of sovereignty.Butler's followers,Thomas Hobbes,further developed the doctrine of sovereignty,laying the foundations of modern liberal democratic ideology.Locke opened the doctrine of decentralization in the modern sense,and Montesquieu was based on the analysis of social state and natural state,which had more or less influence on the formation of Rousseau's thought.Rousseau is also on the thinking of these thinkers decomposition,combined with their own experience through constant thinking,and ultimately put forward their own unique views on the theory of sovereignty.The fourth part of the paper introduces the influence of Rousseau's democratic thoughts on Western thinkers,Marx and Engels,and the early democratic ideology of China,as well as the influence of the French Revolution,the American Revolution and the modern Chinese democratic revolution.In the fifth part of the thesis,the main contents of Rousseau's democratic thought expressed in"Social Contract Theory" are introduced.The sixth part of the thesis expounds the enlightenment of Rousseau's democratic thought.Through the first few parts of the Rousseau democratic theory of the background and theoretical sources,inheritance,development,and the main content of Rousseau's democratic ideas and other aspects of the narrative,the ultimate goal is to absorb Rousseau's democratic theory is still full of vitality and part of this To promote the democratic construction of our country.