《论语》中多次提及"命"。孔子的命观由三个维度构成:德命、禄命、天命,且这三者呈金字塔形。文章着重论证孔子从蓄德到出仕,再到"知我其天"的政治脉络,还原孔子从一介普通儒生到相信自己"受命于天"、"天下宗予"的命运历程。
Fate is repeatedly mentioned in the book of The Analects.Confucius' s viewpoints is constituted by the three pyramidal dimensions-virtue,fortune and destiny.This paper then revealed the whole political career of Confucius from his moral cultivation to the official career and to his reflections of destiny,which restored his life course from an ordinary scholar to a man who believed in preordained fate.