On The Construction Of The Modern State

The enlightenment reason,which originated in modern times,has pushed the enlightenment religion to the gulf,hence the reconstruction of modern state has become an urgent problem to be solved.In the theory of the political order,Hobbes and Rousseau are standing in both opposite and unified.The political order of Leviathan constructed by Hobbes was taking natural rights as the base,he designed the state as a ruling machine with normative power while erasing the ruling power of religion over the secular world.Rousseau inherited the supremacy of sovereignty,but he directed the foundation of modern state to moral principles.Only when the individual's moral attribute can be released in the public morality can the modern state which combines morality and power be constructed.Both two theory having an deep effect on the theory of the reconstruction of modern state.