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Philosophical concept

Duty

Duty is the action appropriate to a situation, role, or rule, even when carrying it out is costly.

Works
247
Passages
7,047
Thinkers
44
Traditions
16

Understand uses of the concept

Duty is the action appropriate to a situation, role, or rule, even when carrying it out is costly.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 7,047 passages across 247 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: devoir, duty, offici, καθηκ

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. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  7. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  8. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  13. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  14. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 203 passages
  15. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  16. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  17. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  18. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  19. Letters to FriendsCicero · 182 passages
  20. Letters to QuintusCicero · 199 passages
  21. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  22. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  23. On DutiesCicero · 374 passages
  24. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  25. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  26. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  27. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages
  28. On the LawsCicero · 0 passages
  29. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  30. On the RepublicCicero · 0 passages