Amane Nishi's practical logic seems to represent the typical way of thinking in which the late-nineteenth-century Japanese beaurocrats and thinkers had dealt with the economic, political and strategic pro-blems they encountered after the Meiji Restoration. Furthermore, it seems to me that his practical logic shows a still living one in our present-day ordinary life. In this sense, it is very interesting for us to clarify his practical logic. I have tried in this paper to describe how Nishi developed his practical logic, and discuss how he applied it to various fields such as political, economic and strategic fields. By doing so, I trace J. S. Mill's, H. Spencer's and I. ant's influences upon Nishi's thought also.

第五十集記念号