# Mercy

- Id: `mercy`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/mercy/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `6cfb120dba09e6cee7c27ea60d1ec0124523ca0d346f6afe1ef179d512f6dc2a`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:seneca.de_clementia:2.7",
    "passage:muhammad.quran:9.99",
    "passage:moses.exodus:33"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "misericorde",
    "miséricorde",
    "mercy",
    "misericord",
    "رحم"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 140,
    "passages": 7486,
    "thinkers": 28,
    "traditions": 11
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
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        "id": "political-thought",
        "name": "Political thought and democracy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/political-thought-and-democracy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "science",
        "name": "Science and scientific thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/science-and-scientific-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "psychology",
        "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/psychology-and-psychoanalysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "judaism",
        "name": "Judaism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/judaism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "islam",
        "name": "Islam",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/islam/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "christianity",
        "name": "Christianity",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/christianity/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
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        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_authored",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents",
        "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln/lincoln-authored-papers/"
    },
    {
        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_context",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents",
        "author": "Correspondents and archival record",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln-archive-correspondents/incoming-mail-and-context/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.politics",
        "title": "Politics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/politics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.rhetoric",
        "title": "Rhetoric",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/rhetoric/"
    },
    {
        "id": "chrysippus.svf_3",
        "title": "SVF III: Chrysippus on Ethics",
        "author": "Chrysippus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/chrysippus/svf-3/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.academica",
        "title": "Academica",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/academica/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.brutus",
        "title": "Brutus, or On Eminent Orators",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/brutus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.catilinarians",
        "title": "Catilinarian Orations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/catilinarians/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_atticus",
        "title": "Letters to Atticus",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-atticus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_friends",
        "title": "Letters to Friends",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-friends/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_quintus",
        "title": "Letters to Quintus",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-quintus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.lucullus",
        "title": "Lucullus, Book Two of the Academica",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/lucullus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_officiis",
        "title": "On Duties",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-officiis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_finibus",
        "title": "On Ends",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-finibus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_amicitia",
        "title": "On Friendship",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-amicitia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_oratore",
        "title": "On the Orator",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-oratore/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.philippics",
        "title": "Philippics",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/philippics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.tusculan_disputations",
        "title": "Tusculan Disputations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/tusculan-disputations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.laertius_book6",
        "title": "Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes Laertius",
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        "id": "elizabeth_carter.montagu_letters",
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        "id": "elizabeth_carter.vesey_letters",
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        "id": "elizabeth_carter.bible_notes",
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    },
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        "id": "elizabeth_carter.poems",
        "title": "Poems on Several Occasions, by Elizabeth Carter",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/poems/"
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/francis-of-assisi/testament/"
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/collected-papers-analytical-psychology/"
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        "id": "jung.psychology_of_the_unconscious",
        "title": "Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the Libido",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/psychology-of-the-unconscious/"
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        "id": "marcus_aurelius.meditations",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/marcus-aurelius/meditations/"
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        "author": "Michel de Montaigne",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/montaigne/essais/"
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        "id": "moses.deuteronomy",
        "title": "Deuteronomy",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/moses/deuteronomy/"
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        "id": "moses.exodus",
        "title": "Exodus",
        "author": "Moses",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/moses/exodus/"
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        "id": "moses.genesis",
        "title": "Genesis",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/moses/genesis/"
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        "id": "moses.numbers",
        "title": "Numbers",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/moses/numbers/"
    },
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        "id": "muhammad.quran",
        "title": "The Qur’an",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/muhammad/quran/"
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        "id": "plato.apology",
        "title": "Apology of Socrates",
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        "title": "Alexander",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/alexander/"
    },
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        "id": "plutarch.caesar",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/caesar/"
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/cato-younger/"
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        "id": "plutarch.on_curiosity",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/on-curiosity/"
    },
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        "id": "plutarch.stoic_self_contradictions",
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        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/stoic-self-contradictions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.consolatio_ad_polybium",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/consolatio-ad-polybium/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_beneficiis",
        "title": "On Benefits",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-beneficiis/"
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    {
        "id": "seneca.de_clementia",
        "title": "On Clemency",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-clementia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_ira",
        "title": "On Anger",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-ira/"
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    {
        "id": "seneca.de_providentia",
        "title": "On Providence",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-providentia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.epistulae_morales",
        "title": "Moral Letters to Lucilius",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/moral-letters-to-lucilius/"
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    {
        "id": "seneca.naturales_quaestiones",
        "title": "Natural Questions",
        "author": "Seneca",
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        "author": "Plato",
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]
```