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.
子路問君子。子曰：修己以敬。曰：如斯而已乎？曰：修己以安人。曰：如斯而已乎？曰：修己以安百姓。修己以安百姓，堯舜其猶病諸！Zilu asked about the gentleman. The Master said: He cultivates himself with reverence. Is that all? He cultivates himself to bring peace to others. Is that all? He cultivates himself to bring peace to all the people. Cultivating oneself to bring peace to all the people — even Yao and Shun found this hard!
What this chapter says
一孔按：子路问君子，孔子说修己以敬；问还有吗，说修己以安人；再问，说修己以安百姓，连尧舜都难做到。修己是根，安人安百姓是它自然推出去的效。常有人问：子路问君子，孔子说“修己以敬”，君子只管好自己够不够？上面是一孔录的回答。
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白Plain Chinese
子路问君子，孔子说，以敬慎修养自己，子路问仅此而已吗，孔子说，修养自己而使别人安定；子路再问，孔子说，修养自己而使所有百姓安定，做到这一层，尧舜尚且担心不足。
Draft plain-Chinese rendering following Zhu Xi; it will be checked when the chapter is covered.
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Connections
- Same question
Asking about the gentleman: 3 times in the book. Different people asked, and got different answers:
- Same line elsewhere
- Analects 6.28 子貢曰：如有博施於民而能濟眾……
- Other books
- Read alongside (Yikonglu)Daodejing 54: "Cultivate it in the person, and its virtue will be genuine" (修之于身，其德乃真), extending step by step to the whole world. Confucius says "cultivate oneself to bring peace to the people."
- People
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
子路问君子，孔子说“修己以敬”，君子只管好自己够不够？
注Key words in the commentary
修己以敬，夫子之言至矣尽矣。而子路少之，故再以其充积之盛，自然及物者告之，无他道也。人者，对己而言。百姓，则尽乎人矣。
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 修己以安百姓，尧 | “修己以敬，夫子之言至矣尽矣。而子路少之，故再以其充积之盛，自然及物者告之，无他道也。人者，对己而言。百姓，则尽乎人矣。尧舜犹病，言不可以有加于此，以抑子路，使反求诸近也。盖圣人之心无穷，世虽极治，然岂能必知四海之内，果无一物不得其所哉？故尧舜犹以安百姓为病。若曰吾治已足，则非所以为圣人矣。” | page 204—205 |
| 修己以安百姓，尧 | “君子修己以安百姓，笃恭而天下平。唯上下一于恭敬，则天地自位，万物自育，气无不和，而四灵毕至矣。此体信达顺之道，聪明睿知皆由是出，以此事天飨帝。” | page 205 |
见Cross-references
- 修己以安百姓，尧 Elsewhere in the Analects：尧舜其犹病诸！（《论语》集注分章6.28（底本第 89 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
“云子路問君子者，問為君子之法也。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | same | fairly sure | 同以修己敬为根，充之安人与百姓，不另有脱离修身的治人捷径；尧舜犹病表此志无限，并非否定修己足以及人。 |
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