英语国家社会与文化 课件 Rousseau.pptVIP

* Jean Jacque Rousseau (1712~1778) One of the primary principles of Rousseaus political philosophy is that politics and morality should not be separated. When a state fails to act in a moral fashion, it ceases to function in the proper manner and ceases to exert genuine authority over the individual. The second important principle is freedom, which the state is created to preserve. View on governments: Government – an intermediate body set up between the subjects and the sovereign, to secure their mutual correspondence, charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of liberty,