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Philosophical concept

Beneficence

Beneficence is a gift or service directed toward another’s good, raising questions of intention, gratitude, and reciprocity.

Works
233
Passages
3,852
Thinkers
48
Traditions
16

Understand uses of the concept

Beneficence is a gift or service directed toward another’s good, raising questions of intention, gratitude, and reciprocity.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 3,852 passages across 233 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of Chios. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: bienfait, benefit, benefic, χαρι

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. Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 0 passages
  4. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  9. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  10. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  14. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  15. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  16. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  17. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  18. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  19. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  20. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  21. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  22. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  23. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  24. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  25. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  26. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  27. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  28. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  29. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages
  30. On the LawsCicero · 0 passages