On Rousseau's Equality Thought

Rousseau was one of the greatest thinkers of the French Enlightenment in 18 th century.His' heterogeneous and profound thought rooted in his legendary and suffering life,it has played a huge role in the human development process and promote advancement of the human society,until today,Rousseau's thoughts are still exuberant,and it is worth our descendants continuous research,learn from the power to transform society.The idea of equality is the core of Rousseau's political thought and the starting point and ending point of Rousseau's political thought.Rousseau has been writing books for the true equality and happiness of mankind all his life.The formation of Rousseau's ideas is by no means illusive.It is not only a product of the times but also a product of Rousseau's care for human beings.Under the influence of the social contract theory,Rousseau uses his genius imagination to point out the origin of inequality among human beings in human society.While he is disappointed with social reality and human beings,Rousseau spares no effort to point out to mankind the road to equality.Equality in Rousseau's eyes is not equality in the simple sense of economics,but a concept equality in the experience of happiness,which is a higher level of equality and has very high demands on the perfection of human nature.Rousseau's equal thinking starts from his investigation of the inequality of human society and his critique of the inequality of human society.Finally,Rousseau finally constructs an equal society in his ideal.Rousseau is a highly controversial figure in the history of Western political thought because his ideology of equality is considered by the later thinkers to be a contradictory unity.The reason why Rousseau's equality thought makes people think it is a contradictory one.First,Rousseau's own personality is the unity of contradiction.Second,because Rousseau's own personality has made definite efforts in solving the ancient paradox of freedom and equality.Although later generations were mixed with Rousseau,no one denied his tremendous contribution in the history of ideas.In particular,he has had a tremendous impact on Immanuel Kant,the master of Western philosophy.In the process of modern western learning in modern China,Rousseau's thought of equality awakened a large number of intellectuals worried about the country and the people,which in turn influenced the progress of China's modern society.In addition,Rousseau's thought of equality also has implications for the development of contemporary Chinese society.significance.Studying Rousseau's idea of equality will help enrich the study of Rousseau's content,and it will also help provide a source of ideology for building a harmonious socialist society.