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Philosophical concept

Governance by virtue

Governance by virtue leads first through moral example and ritual rather than punishment alone.

Works
2
Passages
209
Thinkers
2
Traditions
2

Understand uses of the concept

Governance by virtue leads first through moral example and ritual rather than punishment alone.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 209 passages across 2 works, including Politics, The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ). These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: 為政以德, 为政以德, govern by virtue, gouverner par la vertu

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. PoliticsAristotle · 189 passages
  2. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 20 passages