"大同"是孔子的社会理想吗?

从文献学的角度看,到目前为止,没有任何文献资料可以肯定《礼记·礼运》中论大同的一段话确实是孔子本人的言论.将"大同"思想与那些可以确证是孔子言论的内容如《论语》等比较,可以看出,它不可能是孔子的社会理想.《礼记·礼运》中的大同之说,打着孔子的招牌,实际上是墨家的思想.它应该是儒家弟子将墨家思想引入儒家学说的产物,其产生的年代不可能早于孟子生活的时代.

Is "Great Harmony" Confucius's Sociological Idea?

Philological research shows that no literature so far is enough to assure that the text about Great Harmony in THE BOOK OF RITES(Chapter 9,The Conveyance of Rites) was from Confucius. If we compare the idea of Great Harmony with those sayings in WTBX]The AnalectsWTBZ] which has already been proved to be Confucius's words,we can tell the former cannot be Confucius's idea. Although WTBX]THE BOOK OF RITESWTBZ](Chapter 9,The Conveyance of Rites) claimed that the idea of Great Harmony belonged to Confucius,it was in fact an idea of Mohism.The fact is,the Confucians brought such an idea into Confucianism.This idea,however,couldn't be earlier than the time of Mencius.