The Study On Yoshida Shoin’s Thoyghts

Philosophy of human nature, political philosophy and military philosophy are three major components of Yoshida Shoin’s thought.Yoshida Shoin showed that the good is the human innate nature, and man has the absolute good nature, but it is obscured by the human body. He also criticized Neo-Confucianism shouldn’t use the nature of temperament to distinguish the wise and the foolish. Yoshida Shoin attached great importance to warriors’ absolute loyalty to the feudal lords and denied Mencius’s "Yixing revolution" is reasonable, in Japan the servants’loyalty to the master will never be changed. Admonition and advice is the inescapable responsibility to the servants, which is the concrete manifestation that the servants is loyal to the feudal lords or the Emperor. Yoshida Shoin believed that if people want to improve their training level, it is necessary to regard "move" as the focus. When we face the specific facts, when we deal with the daily matters, we can depend on "move". In addition, he also payed more attention on the recuperation of the heart and how to properly treat heart’s role. Then what is the person’s heart? He claimed:remove the hypocrisy flourish, only leaving pure and simple child’s heart which should be the true state of the "heart".Yoshida Shoin did not fight with the shogunate in the beginning, his thought had a great change which at first he supported the shogunate, but at last he objected the shogunate. This change are closely related with the then state of Japan’s domestic and foreign policy. Yoshida Shoin realized that the Japanese like a mess had no ability to resist the invasion of Western powers, this time he has broken the narrow and old Fan sense, a global awareness began gradually waking up in his mind. However, he never rose from the diversity of loyalties to a unified state. Initially, to promote the development of production and ensure the stability of national life is an important theory of Yoshida Shoin’s civil concerns. After "Black ship incident", he attached particular importance to tax cuts. In addition, He also made some elaboration on how to promote the development of production, how to make people rich and how to distress the poor, etc..In Yoshida Shoin’s view, loyalty and filial piety is the warriors’ basic qualities. He also extended the warriors’loyalty and filial piety, the loyalty and filial piety were also imposed on all the Japanese people, expanding the scope of loyalty and filial piety. Justice and braveness is also the part of Bushido. Yoshida Shoin thought that if Japan wanted to consolidate Japan’s coastal defense, manufacturing advanced, large-scale military ships, weapons and equipment was the first we should do to enhance the strength. Later he proposed the "Coastal Home Theory." Standing on the position of military scientists, Yoshida Shoin made a comparative analysis of Japan and the West’s weapons and equipment, put forward his own weapons theory and furthered, enriched and developed it in prison.It is undeniable that Yoshida Shoin’s thought had a profound impact on future generations.