Abstract

Seventeenth century Catholic priest who reached for religious missions, indirectly, to promote East-West cultural exchanges, the Chinese culture in addition to material culture, science and technology to enhance the knowledge of many of China's Confucian culture also has a considerable degree of impact. I am deeply passed in the seventeenth century by the Catholic ideology is a part can not be ignored, so this paper attempts to introduce a number of missionaries was its Aleni, how he compared with the Chinese Ming dynasty to the high country about the Catholic Church leaves doctrine. In this paper, the text of the Shu Li method, by the records of the talk, how to spy on his understanding of Confucianism, and Confucianism in the face, Ye Si to the conflict, he insisted to his Catholic faith. "Three mountains on the school discipline" in the study of dimensions, including concern for Confucian philosophy: change of the universe and the human good and evil of the two issues, the book has detailed argument, is the richest part of the book inking Therefore, this paper to the point of view the idea as one of Aleni Study to illustrate the Catholic missionaries since the late Ming, the Chinese and Western cultures to adapt to the participants through. Around the turn of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Catholic priests facilitated the cultural interflow between the east and the west on the purpose to fulfill their religious missions. As for their influences on Chinese culture, other than enhancing technological knowledge on the part of the material culture, they also had effect on Chinese Confucian culture to a certain degree. The writer believes that the Catholic thought introduced to China around the turn of the Ming and Qing Dynasties was a crucial link. Therefore, it is our intention here to introduce one particular Jesuit, Giulio Aleni, among others of that time, showing how he discussed the doctrines of Catholicism with Yeh Xiang-guo, the prime minister of China in the Ming Dynasty. Based on the textual records of their dialogues, we inquire about how Giulio Aleni undertood Confucian thought and how he stuck to his Catholic faith in face of the conflicts between Confucianism and Christianity. Among the many issues covered in Sānshān lúnxué jĭ , the two major concerns of Confucian philosophy-the mutibility of the universe and the goodness and evilness of human nature-were aragued exhaustively and most profoundly in the book. Therefore, this paper makes a preliminary inquiry on Giulio Aleni's thought in light of these two perspectives in order to illuminate how the Catholic priests' have adjusted to and comprehended the eastern and the western cultures. ever since the end of the Ming Dynasty