论贡斯当的自由观

Benjamin Constant's liberal ideas

法国资产阶级思想家贡斯当对卢梭的自由观进行了批判性的研究,并在此基础上提出了全新的自由观,它包括个人自由和政治自由两个层次的内容。他突出了个人自由的核心地位,强调了政治自由的重要性;明确提出了私人生活领域与公共权威领域之间界限的划分问题。贡斯当倡导的自由是政治和社会意义上的自由,是在法律约束下的、以个人自由为核心、政治自由为保障的自由。

Benjamin Constant, a French bourgeois thinker, made a critical study of Rousseau＇ s liberal ideas, and based on which,he put forward his fully new liberal ideas which include individual freedom and political freedom. He not only lays stress on the core position of individual freedom, but also emphasizes the importance of political freedom. He clearly put forward the issue concerning the dividing line between private life and public authority. Constant＇ s liberty is the freedom in political and social sense and the fieedom under restriction of law with individual freedom at the core and with guarantee of political freedom.