Research On Rousseau's "the Social Contract" Law Ethics Thought

The 18 th century was the age of enlightenment rationality.Social contract theory emerged in the modern bourgeois struggle against feudalism.As a systematic theory of national political system,it was developed to the extreme by Rousseau.Legislative thought is the most important component of social contract theory.Rousseau,points out that the law is the embodiment of the public will,legislation is to realize justice,to correctly handle the legislation and the public will,political power and sovereignty,and religious legislation,the relationship between the rule of law and virtue,to attach importance to the people's sovereignty,formulate laws,suitable for general will governed by law,the law as the foundation of the political system,all these ideas have positive political significance,provides the bourgeoisie against the feudal struggle with a powerful ideological weapon,Rousseau preached in the "social contract" freedom,equality,public will,the rule of law,such as thought,in the European social thought trend,not only to promote progress in the French revolution,Moreover,it has promoted the spread of liberal democracy and the rule of law in the world and changed the development direction of modern political philosophy.Rousseau's legal ethics thought,however,there are also some limitations,its thought too much emphasis on public will,rather than to individual will give attention to emphasize its ideas of public power,but not to supervise the public power to checks and balances.In the current our country legal system construction,Rousseau sociai contract legal system thought provides effective reference for our country legal system construction,in the construction of legal system in our country,to attach importance to the people's sovereignty,attaches great importance to the supervision of government power,attaches great importance to protect the rights of citizens,attaches great importance to strengthen moral construction and so on,in order to ensure steady healthy and orderly development of harmonious society in our country.