# De, virtuous efficacy

- Id: `de`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/de-virtuous-efficacy/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `71a236f3783e48aa9075028fb14a80831081149de7ad04a264797b3cf43ffca7`

## Summary

De is the particular efficacy through which a being or ruler fulfils its way without display.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:laozi.daodejing:81",
    "passage:confucius.analects:9",
    "passage:laozi.daodejing:79"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "德"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 97,
    "thinkers": 2,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "chinese-thought",
        "name": "Early Chinese thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/early-chinese-thought/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "confucius.analects",
        "title": "The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)",
        "author": "Confucius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/confucius/analects/"
    },
    {
        "id": "laozi.daodejing",
        "title": "Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue",
        "author": "Laozi",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/laozi/daodejing/"
    }
]
```