근대적 학술로 재편된 양명학의 국가주의적 변용―이노우에 데쓰지로의 『일본 양명학파의 철학』 연구―

Abstract

In modern Japan, Yangmingism was reorganized into a modern study, seeking to establish new national morality. In particular, Inoue Tetsujiro, a professor of the Imperial University of Tokyo, published the Trilogy of Confucianism and established a history of nationalistic morality leading from Confucianism of Edo period to the national morality of modern Japan. In the philosophy of Japanese Yangming School, Inoue argued that the ideas of the Yangming School of Japan contained the nationalistic spirit such as ‘loyalty and filial piety share the same roots.’ and ‘Japaneseism’. And He included the activists of Bakumatsu in the Yangming school, if he had only ever encountered Yangmingism. As a result, he made Yangmingism regarded as the spiritual idea that led the Meiji Restoration. Modern nationalists distorted Yangmingism in the process of transforming it into a modern study. However, such nationalistic Yangmingism is also a Yangmingism that reflects an era of modern Japan.