Exploring the Analects

Exploring the Analects

Book 12: 《顏淵》 Yan Yuan

《顏淵》 Passage 12.17

季康子問政於孔子。孔子對曰:「政者,正也。子帥以正,孰敢不正?」

Legge Translation (1861)

Ji Kang asked Confucius about government. Confucius replied: "To govern means to rectify. If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?"
季康子

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