20世纪初,德国观念论对日本哲学产生了很大的影响。和辻哲郎试图在东西文明对比中寻找日本文化传统的伦理学意义。通过阐述东方佛教哲学中“空”的概念,对比海德格尔的存在论分析,同时回归黑格尔早期国家主义学说,和辻哲郎发展出了强调日本文化特有的民族精神的伦理学体系。此体系尤其注重考察个体与社会之间的关系问题,但其过度强调作为伦理关系的人及其社会的存在,最终走向了尊皇主义的道路。 Early 20th century, the German concept of philosophy had a great impact on Japanese philosophy. He and Tetsuro Tetsuro try to find the ethical significance of Japanese cultural tradition in the contrast between Eastern and Western civilizations. By elaborating the concept of “emptiness ” in oriental Buddhist philosophy, contrasted Heidegger ’s Ontological analysis and returning to Hegel ’ s early theory of nationalism, he developed his ethical system which emphasizes the national spirit peculiar to Japanese culture . In particular, this system focuses on examining the relationship between individuals and society, but it overemphasizes the existence of human beings as an ethical relationship and its society and finally ends up in the path of monarchism.