朱子学的日本化与兰学的兴起

The Neo-Confucianism of Chu Hsi's Japanization and the Development of Rangaku

德川吉宗就任德川幕府第八代将军时,为便于引进西方学术而缓和禁书制度,使日本开始了对西方科学(日本称为兰学)的引入和吸收。但这种靠政治力量扶植的科学文化在日本能否存在下去和得到更大规模的发展,还取决于当时的社会文化环境,尤其是与当时主要意识形态朱子学的关系。而朱子学日本化过程中对自然和人的认识的变迁使兰学的兴起,乃至更大的发展都成为可能了。

The eighth Shogun Yoshimune lifted the ban on the importation of foreign books so as to gain Western or ＂Dutch＂ learning which was called rangaku in Japan. thus a movement of acquiring rangaku came out into the open. However, whether rangaku can develop was depended on the confucian background＇s attitudes, especially the Neo - Confucianism of Chu Hsi as the state orthodoxy. The Neo - Confucianism of Chu Hsi in Japan became more important impetus for the development of rangaku because of its Japanization and changes of thought on nature and mankind.