一孔录The video for this chapter is still in production. For now this page gives the original text, the facsimile page, a working translation and the commentary; the full reading follows when the video is out.
子曰：君子不以言舉人，不以人廢言。The Master said: The gentleman does not promote a man because of his words, nor reject words because of the man.
What this chapter says
一孔按：君子不因为一个人话说得好就举荐他，也不因为一个人不好就废弃他说的对的话。言与人分开看。常有人问：“君子不以言举人”，话说得好的人该不该提拔？上面是一孔录的回答。
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白Plain Chinese
孔子说，君子不因一个人说得好就举用他，也不因为一个人不好，就废弃他有道理的话。
Draft plain-Chinese rendering following Zhu Xi; it will be checked when the chapter is covered.
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Connections
- Same line elsewhere
- Analects 5.9 宰予晝寢。子曰：朽木不可雕也……
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
“君子不以言举人”，话说得好的人该不该提拔？
见Cross-references
- 子曰：君子不以言 Elsewhere in the Analects：宰予昼寝。子曰：朽木不可雕也，粪土之墙不可杇也，于予与何诛。子曰：始吾于人也，听其言而信其行；今吾于人也，听其言而观其行。于予与改是。（《论语》集注分章5.9（底本第 65 页））
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 八
“云子曰云云者，舉人必須知其德行，不可聽言語而薦舉之。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | same | fairly sure | 同以言不必有德故不可只凭言荐人，人无德亦可能有善言故不宜因人废言，分辨人品与言义。 |
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