义理在日本的传播及影响

The historical changes of Yili in Japan

为了探讨义理在日本的传播及影响,经过查阅、对比中日两国历史文献,得出结论:日本早期义理的意义仅仅拘泥于经书中的字句解释,并缺失了儒学典籍中个别意义。宋学义理作为哲学概念传入日本之后,日本的儒学家为了寻求治理武士社会的理论依据,给武士社会创建精神支撑,将义理巧妙地改造成为武士社会主君与武士之间的伦理观基础,江户时期以后,义理进一步深入到町人阶层,在其历史变迁过程中,产生了多种意义,逐渐演变成人伦学概念。

The concept of Yili was gradually accepted by Japanese when Confucian classics began to be introduced into Japan from the middle fifth century. Yili, at its early stage in Japan, only refers to the explanation of some phrases or sentences in classical works. After the introduction of Zhu Xi＇s Thoughts as a philosophical notion into Japan, Japanese scholars of Confucianism tactfully made some changes of it and transformed it into the basis of ethics of the society of warriors in order to lay a theoretical foundation for administrating the society and to establish the spiritual support for it. After the Edo Period, the concept of Yili began to be accepted by the merchants. During the process of historical changes, it was given different meanings, which later developed into the ethics of Japanese society.