儒者诠释“主忠信” 儒家创始人孔子在其《论语》中虽然也讲到“诚”(仅出现三次),但是他并没有把“诚”与“信”联系起来,正式提出“诚信”这一伦理学范畴。他是把“忠”与“信”联系起来,提出“忠信”这一概念,用以表述这一“诚信”思想的。正如陈淳所云:“忠信两字近诚字。忠信只是实,诚也是实。”(《北溪字义·忠信》)孔子在《论语》中,多次阐述了“主忠信”的伦理思想。什么是“主忠信”呢?所谓“主忠信”有二义:一是东汉经学家 Confucian Interpretation Confucius, founder of Confucianism, Confucius, although speaking of “honesty” (only three times) in his Analects of Confucius, did not associate “honesty” with “faith” and formally proposed “honesty and trustworthiness” An ethical category. He linked “loyalty” with “faith” and proposed the concept of “faithfulness” to express this “good faith” idea. As Chen Chun said: “Faith and trust are both words of honesty and trustworthiness. Faithfulness is only truth, honesty and truth.” (“Beixi Ziyi · Faithfulness”) In his Analects of Confucius, Confucius elaborated on the ethics of Faith and Faith for many times. What is the “main loyalty”? The so-called “main loyalty” has two meanings: First, the Eastern Han Dynasty scholar