儒家学说在战国时期,与墨家学说同被称为显学。但是学者们对其军事思想的论析,却所见甚微。我们认为,与其政治、伦理、教育、哲学诸思想相比较,战国儒家的军事思想的确显得单薄和零碎。然而,它却毕竟是存在着的。 有两个因素规定着儒家对军事问题作出自己的回答,提出自己的军事思想。第一、作为传统文化的主要继承发扬者,对于战争问题,他们不能不有自己的基本看法。战争作为历史现象,起源于军事民主制时期。由于它是达到政治目的最有效最直接的手段,故一直为人们所重视,所谓“国之大事,在祀与戏”,就是这层含义。因此,先秦众多典籍中,不可避免地有战争过程的记载;战争性质的分析,战争后果的总结等众多内容。 Confucianism in the Warring States period, and the Mohist doctrine known as significant learning. However, scholars have hardly seen the analysis of their military thinking. In our opinion, the military thinking of the Confucian ideology in the Warring States really did not compare well with its politics, ethics, education, and philosophy. However, it does exist after all. There are two factors that stipulate that Confucians should give their own answers to military questions and come up with their own military thinking. First, as the main successor to traditional culture, they can not but have their own basic views on the issue of war. As a historical phenomenon, war originated in the era of military democracy. Since it is the most effective and direct means to achieve political ends, it has always been valued by people. The so-called “major event of the country, worship and drama” is the implication of this. Therefore, many books in the pre-Qin period inevitably contain the records of the course of the war; the nature of the war and the summary of the consequences of the war.