Parting Ways (15.40)
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道不同，不相為謀 — seven characters Chinese speakers still use to tell someone it's time to go their separate ways. But did Confucius mean that people on different paths can't plan together, or that they shouldn't?
In this twenty-first episode, host Elliott Bernstein works through passage 15.40 and the two readings that have divided it for two thousand years. In the neutral one, clashing goals simply make collaboration impossible — picture two partners who both love pizza but agree on nothing else, and part before the shop sours. In the moral one, canonized by 朱熹 (Zhū Xī), the passage warns the principled to keep away from the corrupt, whose influence is more dangerous than any wasted afternoon.
Along the way: the Mencius on three sages who shared no single way but all kept their integrity, the 81 BCE Discourses on Salt and Iron and the finance minister who ran rhetorical circles around a room full of Confucians, why the character 論 ties the Analects to "principled discourse," and where nine English translators land between "cannot" and "should not."
Follow along with the episode guide at analects.net/ep/21
