内村鑑三における科学 : Practical Scienceとしての水産学・農学
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Kanzo Uchimura(1861-1930), a well-known Christian evangelist in Japan, started his career as a scientist, and his scientific way of thinking is quite clearly discernible in his writings at any stage of his life. Little has been studied, however, as to his scientific aspects, while much has been said and written on him and on his thought. The present author made an exhaustive study of Uchimura's writings that belong to the period of 1877-84 when he was engaged in fishery seience, and concluded that the uniqueness of Uchimura as a young scientist may be summed up as follows: (1) As a fishery scientist, Uchimura aimed at "practical science", science that served his fellow countrymen. (2) As he pursued fishery as practical science, Uchimura came to see that the Creator's benevolence was actualized in the whole economy of nature and he was now able to see matters from the entire global point of view. (3) On the Christian world view rested Uchimura's pursuit of scientific truth. Uchimura was certainly under the strong influence of W. S. Clark and Clark's colleagues, American science teachers at Sapporo Agricultural College where Uchimura studied and met with Christianity. As a Japanese national educational institution of the time, Sapporo Agricultural College was exceptional in this respect that Christianity was also taught together with scientific disciplines in those days when the sole concern of the government consisted in the efficient introduction of the latter.
- 日本科学史学会の論文
- 1980-07-22