社会契约论框架中的自由主义言说

Liberalist Ideas in the Framework of Theory of Social Pact

在西方政治思想史上居于重要地位 ,并对西方政治实践发生深刻影响的自由主义学说 ,是在社会契约论的框架中得到最初的理论表达的。其主导原则在于高扬个人权利 ,以承认公共权力存在的必要性为前提 ,最大限度地约束国家权能 ,努力拓展私人活动的自由空间。

In the history of western political thought, liberalism was first theorized in the framework of the theory of social pact. In effect, viewed against the macroscopic background of capitalist development, the debates and restrictive rectification between its numerous models depict from various aspects an overall framework of liberalism. The core of this framework exists in the primal role of individual rights, preconditioned by the acknowledgment of the necessity of the existence of public power, while restricting state power to the maximum and expanding individual free space as much as possible.