近世における人間観の展開

室鳩巣の思想にあらわれた人間観の論理

抄録

Muro Kyuso's theory of man was a theory that organized in a philosophical manner various aspects of the social problems that began to raise their head toward the middle of the eighteenth century. Kyuso worked out his theory of man in liking his general views of the universe with his views on human society. In his general view of the universe he attached first importance to this world (as opposed to a future world), and in his theory of man he insisted on the absolute autonomy of human value. His theory of man developed into a concrete image of man throuth a thought process peculiar to himself, a process which, based on a feeling for modernity, grasped something of the meaning of the new social organizations and structures then emerging. In this easy I have considered Kyuso's thought in connection with the social problems of the first half of the eighteenth century.