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Philosophical concept

Mercy

Mercy answers vulnerability or fault through compassion, aid, or restraint in punishment.

Works
140
Passages
7,486
Thinkers
28
Traditions
11

Understand uses of the concept

Mercy answers vulnerability or fault through compassion, aid, or restraint in punishment.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 7,486 passages across 140 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Politics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: misericorde, miséricorde, mercy, misericord, رحم

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. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  5. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  6. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  7. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  8. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  9. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  10. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  11. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  12. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  13. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  14. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  15. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  16. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages
  17. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  18. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes LaertiusDiogenes Laertius · 0 passages
  20. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  21. Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  22. Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  23. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  24. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  25. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  26. Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the BibleElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  27. Poems on Several Occasions, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  28. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  29. Later RuleFrancis of Assisi · 0 passages
  30. TestamentFrancis of Assisi · 11 passages