精神动力与日本现代化

Spiritual Power and Japanese Modernization

从“现代化”理论的新视角,审视中日近代的历史发展,较易发现两者的差异。日本现代化属“外源型现代化”,具备思想、政治变革在前,经济、社会变革在后的“序性”。关于从非物质的精神层面去解释历史,过去我们重视得不够,甚至以其“反作用”来解释其历史作用,也不是适用于一切时代,一切条件。在近代以来特定的“现代化”世界大势背景条件下,共同包含其中、相互依存、相互制约的社会诸多元素实际上构成了一个独特的巨大的复杂的多单元网络系统,各单元、要素之间的作用也就是互动的,精神方面、意识形态上的(上层建筑)作用也就是绝对不可忽视、低估的。

Viewing Chinese and Japanese modern history at a new angle of view 'modernization'theory, we can find the difference between them more easily. Japanes modernization was part of the 'modernization from without'. This,to a great extent,has caused the difference in their historical development later on. It is believed that more attention should be paid to interpretting history in non-material, or spiritual, aspects. In the background of global 'modernization', society has actually become a vast, unique, complicated and multi-element net system, in which the elements restrain each other and propel each other, and the spiritual and ideological effects should by no means be ignored or underestimated.