“无友不如己者”辩释

The Explanation of the Sentence "There is no friend who is inferior to oneself in any aspect"

"无友不如己者"是《论语》章句集注中引起争议最大的话语之一。文章参阅历来典籍关于此句的阐释,通过分析孔门儒家精神、推敲原句逻辑意义以及在《论语》文本内进行互证等方法,将有关"无友不如己者"的诸多注释加以分类、解析和排除后,最终提出自己的观点:"没有哪个朋友会在各个方面都不如自己"。

The sentence ＂There is no friend who is inferior to oneself in any aspect＂ is always regarded as one of the mottos in the selected sentences of the classic ＂the Analects of Confucius＂ which cause many disputations about their explanations. The author consults all the preceding explanations to the sentence, analyses the spirit of philoso- phy of Confucius, elaborates the logical meaning of the sentence in the context, and inter - explains the meaning of the sentence by comparing some contents of the classic. On the basis of this, the author decides that the best explana- tion of the sentence is ＂There is no friend who is inferior to oneself in any aspect＂ by classifying, analyzing, ruling out those preceding explanations.