This article briefly discusses the historical background of the way of thinking about covenant and summarizes the development of modern naturalsism covenant thinking way of Thomas Hobbes,John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau.

• 简要考察了契约论思想方法兴起的历史背景 ,并概述了霍布斯、洛克、卢梭的近代自然主义契约论的发展演变 ;