The Classics of Talking about: The Analects of the Analects of the Government Chapter 2 The Analects of the Original Text of The Analects of the Innocent Text Annotated Traditional Translations of the Analects of

The first chapter of the Analects for Government mainly emphasizes the importance of morality for being an official, and puts the cultivation of virtue and the establishment of virtue as an official in the first place.

Academically, the discussion of the issue of being an official and a government, starting with virtue, demonstrates the political belief and political wisdom of the authors of the Analects, because the Confucian thought of "serving the government with virtue" not only has far-reaching historical influence, but also has great practical significance.

Confucianism holds that the primary quality of a person who is an official and a politician is the moral charm of a person. This view, to this day, has hardly been disputed.

Next, some people will ask again, in addition, what qualities should be possessed to be an official and a government official? Let's study the second chapter of the Analects of the Analects.

Chapter II

Zi Yue: "Three hundred poems, in a word, it is said: 'Thinking is innocent'. ”

Thought: Refers to thoughts, thoughts.

Evil (xié) refers to evil, evil thoughts, heresies; it also refers to impropriety and unrighteousness.

Innocence: It means pure and decent.

Confucius said: "The more than three hundred verses of the Book of Poetry, to sum it up in one sentence, is pure thought. ”

Reading the Analects of The Analects for Politics, I once had a question, discussing "for the government" with students, how could Confucius suddenly evaluate the great Chinese literary work "The Book of Poetry"?

Later, after thinking about it, it seems to be enlightened.

Because everyone who is in the official arena will often speak an official sentence that shows his political stance: "Stress politics, take the overall situation into consideration, obey the leadership, unite comrades, and maintain a high degree of consistency with the leadership core of the superior." ”

After deep thinking, I suddenly became enlightened:

The greatest ideological achievement of the Book of Poetry, Confucius highly summarized as "thinking innocence". This is in line with "stressing politics, taking into account the overall situation, obeying the leadership, uniting comrades, and maintaining a high degree of consistency with the leadership core at the higher level." "Isn't there a similarity?

What is the second important quality of those who have successfully promoted political promotions besides official morality?

Confucius believed that it should be "innocent thinking."

There is innocence in the upper and lower left and right, innocence in one's own heart, innocence in one's own lust. To do this, let alone whether it is possible to be promoted, is it more than enough to protect the official?

Talking about being an official and serving the government, using the example of the literary work "Book of Poetry" that evaluates familiar and interested in it, how refined, profound, ingenious, and wise it is!

Confucius said: "The more than three hundred verses of the Book of Poetry, summed up in one sentence , are pure in thought and free of distractions. (What does this mean for officials to govern?) ）

Being an official is a political dignitary whose virtues are exposed, whose thoughts are hidden and innocent, who are pure and upright to others, who purify themselves by self-discipline, and who put desires in a cage.