日本近代前期,福泽谕吉在自己的论著中,提出了与传统观念截然不同的近代民权观。他吸收了欧美近代的天赋人权理念,强调人民天生便具有自由平等的权利,提出人民私人权利的不可侵犯性,主张人民具有以某种方式参与公共事务和政治管理的权力。这些观念对日本自由民权时期的理论产生了重要影响。 In the early modern Japan, Fukuzawa Yukichi proposed in his treatise the modern concept of civil rights, which is totally different from traditional concepts. He absorbed the modern concept of natural human rights in Europe and the United States and emphasized that people naturally have the right to freedom and equality, put forward the inviolability of private rights of the people, and advocate that the people have the right to be somehow involved in public affairs and political management. These ideas have an important impact on the theory of Japan’s period of free and civil rights.