# Almsgiving and charity

- Id: `charity`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/almsgiving-and-charity/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `80a05a98f67379d5f066e8aee69ce1c0b1c5190bc6ad209895e50f973c01dce3`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:muhammad.quran:4.114",
    "passage:jesus.sirach:3",
    "passage:schopenhauer.world:supplement-48"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "aumône",
    "charité",
    "almsgiving",
    "charity",
    "زكا",
    "صدق"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 73,
    "passages": 7599,
    "thinkers": 27,
    "traditions": 12
}
```

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]
```

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```