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Philosophical concept

Almsgiving and charity

Almsgiving and charity turn possession into an obligation toward the poor and the community.

Works
73
Passages
7,599
Thinkers
27
Traditions
12

Understand uses of the concept

Almsgiving and charity turn possession into an obligation toward the poor and the community.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 7,599 passages across 73 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Nicomachean Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: aumône, charité, almsgiving, charity, زكا, صدق

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  5. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  6. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  7. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  8. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  10. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  11. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  12. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  13. The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  14. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  15. Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  16. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  17. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  18. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  19. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  20. Later RuleFrancis of Assisi · 0 passages
  21. The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud · 0 passages
  22. Hillel in Early Rabbinic CarriersHillel the Elder · 0 passages
  23. Existentialism Is a HumanismJean-Paul Sartre · 0 passages
  24. An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
  25. Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke · 0 passages
  26. MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 0 passages
  27. The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
  28. The Qur’anMuhammad · 6,236 passages
  29. Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by LuciusMusonius Rufus · 0 passages
  30. First AlcibiadesPlato · 0 passages