# Governance by virtue

- Id: `governance_by_virtue`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/governance-by-virtue/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `56d1b57aca0934bd8ba6a8e1396e9eb6c8e9c7da138db6b5ec60ef8e27653ff6`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:confucius.analects:9",
    "passage:aristotle.politics:8.1342b",
    "passage:confucius.analects:8"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "為政以德",
    "为政以德",
    "govern by virtue",
    "gouverner par la vertu"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 209,
    "thinkers": 2,
    "traditions": 2
}
```

## Related traditions

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

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "aristotle.politics",
        "title": "Politics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/politics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "confucius.analects",
        "title": "The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)",
        "author": "Confucius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/confucius/analects/"
    }
]
```