Philosophical concept
De, virtuous efficacy
De is the particular efficacy through which a being or ruler fulfils its way without display.
- Works
- 2
- Passages
- 97
- Thinkers
- 2
- Traditions
- 1
Understand uses of the concept
De is the particular efficacy through which a being or ruler fulfils its way without display.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 97 passages across 2 works, including The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ), Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: 德
Works where the concept is identified
- The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
- Daodejing, Book of the Way and VirtueLaozi · 81 passages