Analysis Of The Ancient Schools Of Thought In Japan

During 260 years of the Tokugawa shogunate ruled Japan's feudal society,Confucianism has been dominated by the mainstream ideology.meanwhile, There are Zhucianism camp,Yangming school,Reconstructed school,Compromise school, and so on. In the middle of Tokugawa age, the emergence ofReconstructed school also reflected in the continuing social development, and afterthe new economic structure had been produce, Internal feudal ruling class in theacademic and ideological have been disunioned.This paper try to through systematically sorting out the development processof the Reconstructed school, so as to identify the historical reasons and internalfactors of the formation,the development and the decline of the Reconstructedschool.First, after 100 years of the Tokugawa shogunate have established, theReconstructed school was formed. In the economic and political, the feudal rule hasbeen fully consolidated and developed. Social stability and prosperity for theemergence of old school provided a good social conditions.Secondly, in the Japan Modern Confucianism word, the full development ofZhucianism camp,Yangming school provided fully prepared of the theory conditionsfor the formation and development of the Reconstructed school. But whetherZhucianism camp, or Yangming school only concerns strongly to the individual moralword. their knowledge all have the tendency of "important the within and neglectthe outside", the scholar of the Reconstructed school have suspected this point,they believe that the excessive attention to their sense of accomplishment is subjectto the Buddha and the Taoism thinking, contamined the Buddha and the Taoism habits,So the Reconstructed school holded the banner of returning to the ancients, tookthe stand to the a standpoint of the criticism, denying Zhuxi's theory.Finally, Though all scholars of the Reconstructed school were trying to shakeoff the banal, they still falled to skip over the bounds of the traditional barriers. The scholars of the Reconstructed school thought Zhuxi's theory is not the originalintent of "saints", is not a true" saints Learning". Confucianism of the Sung Dynastycombined the theory of the the Buddha and the Taoism, developed the old thinkingof"saints", so they advocated going back to the classic, to find a truly"saintsscience". but, because of their doctrine of criticism, did not negate the Confucianethics of the Japanese social reality, Such criticism was restricted to a certainextent and has not adapted to social development. And because the theory of thescholars has the internal contradictions and they extremely worshiped the classic,affectted their development of the theory. Furthermore, their theory dropped intothe dogmatism, and formalism. These factors eventually led to the school's decline.Although the prosperity of the Reconstructed school lasted a short half-century,and then rapid declined under the attack of the official ban of "kuan zheng yixue" However, the theory of the Reconstructed school's scholars, not only havemade advance preparations for the materialist philosophy ,but also promoted theproduction of the modern academic thinking. The thinking have played an invaluablerole for the develop of the modern academic word.