# Compassion

- Id: `compassion`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/compassion/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `67098b90f8833e48cb535e3b308adf24a177223961e9a9dd5056cdc2918e4c03`

## Summary

Compassion answers another’s suffering with the wish and action to alleviate it.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,930 passages across 93 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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:buddha.sutta_nipata:snp5.6",
    "passage:buddha.samyutta_nikaya:sn46.63",
    "passage:buddha.majjhima_nikaya:mn99"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "karuṇā",
    "karuna",
    "compassion"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 93,
    "passages": 1930,
    "thinkers": 24,
    "traditions": 13
}
```

## Related traditions

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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "judaism",
        "name": "Judaism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/judaism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "islam",
        "name": "Islam",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/islam/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "new-thought",
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    },
    {
        "id": "christianity",
        "name": "Christianity",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/christianity/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

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```