孔子对于鬼神究竟持什么态度 ,看法历来不一。或者认为他敬信鬼神 ,是个有神论者 ;或者认为他怀疑鬼神 ,具有无神论倾向。为什么对这样一个简单的问题竟会有如此不同的两种看法 ,并长期争论不休呢 ?是的 ,语录式的文体以及由此所决定的思想的零星片断 ,固然给我们的理解增加了 Confucius what attitude to spirits actually, the views have always been different. Or consider him to believe in spirits, a theistic; or think he suspected spirits, with atheistic tendencies. Why two different opinions on such a simple question and long arguments? Yes, the narrative style and the sporadic fragments of the thinking so decided have given us some understanding