本文是藉一本並不存在的書《劉子節要》的一些蛛絲螞跡，推測因它引起的思想 爭論究竟在清初思想史中有何具體的涵義？希望對於理解劉宗周學說的要旨和清初學風變化 的情狀，乃至對理解《劉子全書》編纂的要領，有所幫助。文中指出，清初原有刪改王門後 學文獻以求合于復興的朱子學的趨勢，本文為這學術趨勢提供了一個描述。論文指出時人淡 化劉宗周和朱子學說的矛盾的「意」的思想，是代表一種壓抑王學以求合於朱子學復興的傾 向，並討論這一趨勢與清代官方意識型態之成立的關係。文中並分析劉門幾派對于劉學宗旨 的不同詮釋及其各自用心所在。

　　　　　While reading the preface of Ming-ju-hsueh-an, many people will soon be baffled by a paragraph describing a serious quarrel between Huang Tzung-hsi and his friend Yun Chung-sheng about a book compiled by Yun entitled, Lin-Tzu chieh-yao. The book is, in fact, not extant. However, this article try to demonstrate, that the appearance of this text reflects a major transition in the intellectual world of the early Ch'ing period.