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子曰：吾未見好德如好色者也。The Master said: I have never seen anyone who loves virtue as much as he loves beauty.
What this chapter says
一孔按：孔子说我没见过爱德像爱色那样的人。爱色是真心的，爱德也要到那样真才算，可惜少有人做到。常有人问：“吾未见好德如好色者也”，孔子为什么说这句话？上面是一孔录的回答。
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白Plain Chinese
孔子说：我还没见过喜爱德行像喜爱美色那样真切的人。
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 15.12 已矣乎！吾未見好德如好色者也……
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
“吾未见好德如好色者也”，孔子为什么说这句话？
注Key words in the commentary
史记：孔子居卫，灵公与夫人同车，使孔子为次乘，招摇市过之。孔子丑之，故有是言。
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：吾未见好德 | “好好色，恶恶臭，诚也。好德如好色，斯诚好德矣，然民鲜能之。” | page 125 |
| 子曰：吾未见好德 | “史记：孔子居卫，灵公与夫人同车，使孔子为次乘，招摇市过之。孔子丑之，故有是言。” | page 125 |
见Cross-references
- 子曰：吾未见好德 Elsewhere in the Analects：吾未见好德如好色者也。（《论语》集注分章15.12（底本第 213 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 五
“時人多好色而無好德者也。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | same | fairly sure | 同叹好德不如好色之诚。钱认为不必专为卫灵公南子同车而发；朱引史记此事作发言缘起。 |
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