Description
Inside this edition · 內頁樣張
Contents page, opening chapter, and a page from the middle of the book. Reproduced from the PDF you receive after purchase.
关于此本 · About this edition
Xunzi is the Confucian who argues like a logician. He insists that human nature is not good but improvable, that ritual is not decoration but the machinery of a workable society, and that a ruler who cannot explain his decisions is not a ruler. Mengzi disagreed with him on the first point and Chinese philosophy has been arguing about it ever since.
Thirty-two chapters in the standard order, beginning with the A Encouragement to Learning — the single most quoted passage in classical Chinese education. This edition sets the traditional-character base text, without the 楊倞 commentary.
《荀子》三十二篇，依通行本次第，只存白文。
内容 · What you get
- A typeset A5 PDF — thirty-two chapters, continuous setting.
- A two-column contents table listing every chapter by number.
- Instant download after payment; the file stays in your account.
底本与权利 · Source and rights
The base text is the public-domain traditional-character transcription held by Chinese Wikisource. The text is in the public domain; the typesetting, cover and notes are ours. 楊倞注 and the modern sub-commentaries are separate works and are not included.
原文取自維基文庫公版轉錄本；版式、封面與說明為本店製作。楊倞注不在本書範圍。
You may read, print and quote this edition for study. Please do not resell the file.
注釋 · Editorial notes
白文 楊倞注、王先謙《荀子集解》等歷代注家一概不錄，本頁所售為經文本身。
篇次 三十一篇依通行本次第排列：勸學、修身、不苟、榮辱、非相、非十二子、仲尼、儒效、王制、富國、王霸、君道、臣道、致士、議兵、強國、天論、正論、禮論、樂論、解蔽、正名、性惡、君子、成相、賦、大略、宥坐、子道、法行、哀公、堯問。底本另有一篇《荀子序》，屬序跋而非正文，未收。
字 底本繁體，異體字一仍其舊（如「為」「爲」並存），未強行統一。
Base text only — the commentary tradition (Yang Liang, Wang Xianqian) is a separate body of work and is not reproduced. Thirty-one chapters in the received order; the source’s preface (荀子序) is excluded as front matter. Variant graphs are preserved as they stand in the source rather than normalised.
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