cience andConfucianism in this period, because in this period there were relatively more interactions,including both the multiple effects and impacts on Confucianism by science, and theparticular attitude and approaches adopted against science in Confucianism. So from theanalysis of this direct encounter between science and Confucianism, we may find moreabout their relationship from multiple aspects.
In this dissertation, Fang Yizhi's pragmatism is taken as the clue to probe into theeffect of eastward-spread sciences on his pragmatism as well as the multiple roles of hispragmatism stance in learning and absorbing the eastward-spread sciences. This paperstarts from an introduction part, then gives a brief introduction of the cultural context inwhich Fang's pragmatism was formed, i.e.,in the time and space of great culture surgetriggered by the eastward-spread sciences and the corresponding pragmatism in the lateMing and early Qi
