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：不在其位，不謀其政。The Master said: When not in the office, do not plan its affairs.
What this chapter says
一孔按：不在其位，不谋其政。泰伯篇已出现过，这里是记者因下章曾子语而重记。常有人问：“不在其位，不谋其政”为什么在宪问篇又出现一次？上面是一孔录的回答。
Yikonglu's reading of this chapter is in Chinese for now; the English version comes with the video.
白Plain Chinese
孔子说，不居于那个职位，就不谋划那个职位的政事。
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 8.14 不在其位，不謀其政。
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
“不在其位，不谋其政”为什么在宪问篇又出现一次？
见Cross-references
- 子曰：不在其位， Elsewhere in the Analects：子曰：不在其位，不谋其政。（《论语》集注分章8.14（底本第 113 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 七
“云子曰云云者，各專己職，不得濫謀圖他人之事。”……
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