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Philosophical concept

Moral decorum

Moral decorum fits gesture, speech, and role to personal dignity and concrete circumstance.

Works
100
Passages
1,017
Thinkers
29
Traditions
12

Understand uses of the concept

Moral decorum fits gesture, speech, and role to personal dignity and concrete circumstance.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,017 passages across 100 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: decorum, convenance, seemly, bienséance

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  2. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  3. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  6. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  7. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  8. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  9. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  10. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  11. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  12. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  13. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  14. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  15. On DutiesCicero · 374 passages
  16. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  17. OratorCicero · 238 passages
  18. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  20. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  21. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes LaertiusDiogenes Laertius · 0 passages
  22. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  23. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  24. Miscellaneous Prose by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  25. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  26. Enchiridion of EpictetusEpictetus · 0 passages
  27. The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud · 0 passages
  28. An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
  29. Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke · 0 passages
  30. Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages