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Philosophical concept

Compassion as moral basis

Compassion as a moral basis begins when another person’s suffering becomes a direct motive for action, without self-interested calculation or obedience to an abstract rule.

Works
118
Passages
524
Thinkers
26
Traditions
13

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Compassion as a moral basis begins when another person’s suffering becomes a direct motive for action, without self-interested calculation or obedience to an abstract rule.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 524 passages across 118 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Politics, Rhetoric. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: compassion, Mitleid

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  2. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  3. RhetoricAristotle · 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. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  10. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  11. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  12. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  13. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  14. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  15. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  16. Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  17. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  18. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  19. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  20. Miscellaneous Prose by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  21. Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the BibleElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  22. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  23. Jokes and Their Relation to the UnconsciousSigmund Freud · 0 passages
  24. The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud · 0 passages
  25. Three Essays on the Theory of SexualitySigmund Freud · 0 passages
  26. An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
  27. Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  28. Psychological TypesCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  29. Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the LibidoCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  30. The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages