横井小楠出生于日本江户末期的一个下级武士家庭。耳闻目睹当时溺于高远空疏之谈、流于训诂诵之末的治学风气,小楠强烈地批判束缚后世学人思想的举业之书,并大声疾呼为学之道应在明辨“日用事实之义理”。小楠对于朱熹人格魅力,虽不惜赞美之辞,但并未拘泥于朱子学说,其不仅否定了“未有天地之先,畢竟是先有此理”的理之先验性,而且结合德川幕末“西力东进”之时局,提出了“理随势动”、理为“活理”的主张。最终,在“三代之道”的引领下,百姓之利用厚生成为其“格物”的终极关怀,而六府(水、火、金、木、土、谷)亦升华成为其“格物”之核心对象。 Yokoi Koji was born in a subordinate warrior family at the end of Japan’s Edo period. When I heard that I was drowned in the lofty air of the time and went to the end of the training ceremony, Xiaonan strongly criticized the books that held back the thoughts of later generations of scholars and shouted loudly that the way of learning should be discerning. The justice of “. Xiaonan Zhu Xi personality charm, although hesitant to praise the words, but not rigidly adhere to the Zhu theory, which not only denied ”before the world, after all, is the first of this principle,“ the principle of the priori, but also with Germany At the end of the Bakumatsu period, ”Xi Li Dong Jin“ was put forward. Ultimately, under the guidance of ”Three Generations of Duty“, people’s livelihood has become the ultimate concern of their ”treasures,“ and the Six Villages (water, fire, gold, wood, earth, and valley) ”Lattice " the core object.