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：有德者必有言，有言者不必有德；仁者必有勇，勇者不必有仁。The Master said: Those with virtue are sure to have words worth hearing; those with words are not necessarily virtuous. The humane are sure to have courage; the courageous are not necessarily humane.
What this chapter says
一孔按：有德者必有言，有言者不必有德；仁者必有勇，勇者不必有仁。有德的言自然流出，能言的可能只是口给；仁者见义必为，勇者可能只是血气。常有人问：“有言者不必有德，勇者不必有仁”，会说和胆大为什么不可靠？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，有德的人必有值得听的言语，能说话的人却未必有德；仁者必有勇气，勇敢的人却未必仁。
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 56: "Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know" (知者不言，言者不知). Confucius says the virtuous will surely have something to say, but those who have something to say are not necessarily virtuous.
- Read alongside (Yikonglu)Daodejing 67: "Compassionate, hence able to be brave" (慈故能勇): Confucius too says the humane are surely brave.
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
“有言者不必有德，勇者不必有仁”，会说和胆大为什么不可靠？
注Key words in the commentary
有德者，和顺积中，英华发外。能言者，或便佞口给而已。仁者，心无私累，见义必为。勇者，或血气之强而已。
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 子曰：有德者必有 | “有德者，和顺积中，英华发外。能言者，或便佞口给而已。仁者，心无私累，见义必为。勇者，或血气之强而已。” | page 187 |
| 子曰：有德者必有 | “有德者必有言，徒能言者未必有德也；仁者必有勇，徒能勇者未必有仁也。” | page 187 |
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，既有德則其言語多及中，故必有言也。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | same | fairly sure | 同辨有德必能发言而口才未必有德，仁见义必勇而血气勇未必仁，不能倒推必要条件为充分。 |
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