《孔子家语》与新时代“论语学”的建构

The Family Sayings of Confucius and the Construction of Study on the Analects of Confucius in the New Era

《孔子家语》《论语》皆为孔门后学整理“孔子遗说”后的材料。《论语》是“孔子遗说”中“正实而切事”者,是孔子“遗言”的选编;《孔子家语》是其余材料的汇编,二者属于同根同源关系。《孔子家语》流传过程中,孔安国的整理和王肃的注解至关重要,为后世保存了一批珍贵的“孔子遗说”。有人怀疑《孔子家语》的真实性,在很大程度上是信奉了唐代学者颜师古“非今所有《家语》”的说法。随着新出文献的不断面世,《孔子家语》成为人们心目中“孔子研究第一书”,在新时代“论语学”体系建构过程中理应起着非常重要的作用。

The Family Sayings of Confucius and The Analects of Confucius are both collected and sorted out by the disciples and descendants of Confucius.The Analects of Confucius is selected from Confucius’words,which are“factual and reasonable”while The Family Sayings of Confucius is a collection of the remaining materials and shares the same source with The Analects of Confucius.Thanks to Kong An-guo’s editing and Wang Su’s annotation for The Family Sayings of Confucius,the precious literature has been preserved and passed down.Later generations have ever doubted that The Family Sayings of Confucius might have been faked mainly because it is believed that Yan Shi-gu,a scholar of the Tang Dynasty,used to propose that“The Family Sayings of Confucius we read today is not the same as the original one”.With more and more newly unearthed literature,The Family Sayings of Confucius has gradually become“the most important book on the study of Confucius”,playing a significant role in the construction of“study on the Analects of Confucius”in the New Era.