本文討論荷蘭東印度公司官員對臺灣原住民的「文明性」論述與其形成背景。文章先陳述初抵臺灣的公司人員對住民的描述，並由公司在領地擴張過程中，官員筆下三群「文明人」的特質，探討形成其個別「文明性」的原因；並以蘭陽平原的噶瑪蘭人為例，討論公司官員在中介影響下的認知，以及對臺灣原住民施政的影響。接著描述東印度公司在臺初期的「文明化」作為，並舉一較極端的小琉球人案例，討論荷蘭人如何實踐其殖民地的文明化理念。最後析論隨著統治與住民教化工作的進行，公司官員如何將全臺住民視為三個階序式的「文明化」地理空間。

This article discusses the civility discourses of the officials of Dutch East India Company (VOC) on the Formosan Austronesians. It begins with the descriptions of newly arrived VOC personnel of the Formosan Austronesians and, in the course of VOC territorial expansion, its administrators' view of the nature of three more civilized groups of people. The case of the Cavalan illustrates how the VOC-appointed local representatives affected both the perception of administrators and the VOC policy on the Formosan Austronesians. This article then turns to the early civilizing practices of the VOC. The case of the Lameyers illuminates how the Dutch fulfilled their idea of civilizing practices in an extreme way. This article further examines how VOC personnel formulated their own ultimate impression of three civilizing geographical spaces of Formosan Austronesians based on hierarchical difference after decades of ruling and Christianizing practices.