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子之所慎：齊、戰、疾。The things the Master was careful about: fasting, war, and illness.
What this chapter says
一孔按：孔子最谨慎的是斋戒、战争、疾病三件。斋关乎诚敬，战关乎众人死生，疾关乎自身存亡，都是不能有一点轻忽的事。常有人问：“子之所慎：齐、战、疾”，孔子为什么偏偏最谨慎这三件？上面是一孔录的回答。
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白Plain Chinese
孔子格外谨慎对待的有三件事：斋戒、打仗、疾病。
Draft plain-Chinese rendering following Zhu Xi; it will be checked when the chapter is covered.
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Connections
- Other books
- Read alongside (Yikonglu)Daodejing 31: “Weapons are instruments of ill omen” (兵者不祥之器): war is one of the three things Confucius treated with the greatest care.
- Read alongside (Yikonglu)Daodejing 68: "The good warrior is not martial" (善为士者不武): war was among the matters Confucius treated with the greatest caution.
Relationship map of the whole book · The Analects, AI-reconstructed edition (PDF)
Close reading and checking
For readers who want to go deeper or check our work: key words in the commentary, what other commentators say, textual variants, the commentaries in their own words with facsimile pages, pronunciation and corrections. Tap a heading to open it.
常The common reading
“子之所慎：齐、战、疾”，孔子为什么偏偏最谨慎这三件？
注Key words in the commentary
齐之为言齐也，将祭而齐其思虑之不齐者，以交于神明也。诚之至与不至，神之飨与不飨，皆决于此。
核Zhu Xi's commentary, line by line
Zhu Xi's own words on each line of this chapter, each checked against the base-edition page. Other commentators are added when the chapter is covered. About this edition
| Line | Quoted text | Page |
|---|---|---|
| 子之所慎：齐、战 | “齐之为言齐也，将祭而齐其思虑之不齐者，以交于神明也。诚之至与不至，神之飨与不飨，皆决于此。” | page 96 |
| 子之所慎：齐、战 | “战则众之死生、国之存亡系焉；疾又吾身之所以死生存亡者，皆不可以不谨也。” | page 96 |
| 子之所慎：齐、战 | “夫子无所不谨，弟子记其大者耳。” | page 96 |
家Other commentaries
Our base text is Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries (above). Here are other commentaries side by side: for old commentaries, the first line of the sub-commentary with a link to the woodblock scan; for modern editions, one short quoted translation for comparison. The “compared with Zhu Xi” notes are written by Yikonglu, not quoted.
皇侃《论语义疏》Liang dynasty · 1750 Japanese woodblock edition · juan 四
“此三者，人所不能慎，而夫子能慎之也。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | same | fairly sure | 同以斋为齐思交神、战关众人生死、疾关己身生死，皆当谨慎。钱再从不可知之命发明慎即道。 |
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