新渡戸稻造於1899年所著《武士道》,對歐美之理解認識日本以及日本國內均影響極大。歷來對新渡戶或《武士道》之研究甚多,然卻不見《武士道》一書之思想性研究專著,因此本書乃以挖掘《武士道》之思想性側面為目的,以新渡戶執筆該書之精神葛藤為線索,對《武士道》之思想課題之始末與意義進行論證。首先,我們自作品之主客雙方考證其著作動機以及意義得知,該書無論就著者主觀之認識而言或就其客觀之思想史位置而言,均存在東西洋思維思想作用之糾葛。其次,我們考證《武士道》之東西洋所指,其所說東洋乃在地域上雖指日本,但在文化思想上,則 “Bushido: The Soul of Japan” composed by Nitobe Inazô in1899, has crucial influence on Japan and how the western think of Japan. By now there are many researches on “Nitobe or “Bushido: The Soul of Japan,” however; there lacks an ideologically specialize