# Moral decorum

- Id: `decorum`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/moral-decorum/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `e8f8cf7e4e7f92ef37cf04b0d4a45bf1793c5b4b137e6e9792f1d1b23ef0ea93`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:montaigne.essais:3.5",
    "passage:sextus_empiricus.outlines:1",
    "passage:carneades.ancient_testimonia:sextus_empiricus-outlines-1"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "decorum",
    "convenance",
    "seemly",
    "bienséance"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 100,
    "passages": 1017,
    "thinkers": 29,
    "traditions": 12
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "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": "buddhism",
        "name": "Buddhism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/buddhism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "chinese-thought",
        "name": "Early Chinese thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/early-chinese-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "psychology",
        "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/psychology-and-psychoanalysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    },
    {
        "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_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.nicomachean_ethics",
        "title": "Nicomachean Ethics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.poetics",
        "title": "Poetics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/poetics/"
    },
    {
        "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": "buddha.anguttara_nikaya",
        "title": "Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/anguttara-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.majjhima_nikaya",
        "title": "Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/majjhima-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "carneades.ancient_testimonia",
        "title": "Ancient testimonia on Carneades",
        "author": "Carneades",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/carneades/ancient-testimonia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "chrysippus.svf_2",
        "title": "SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and Physics",
        "author": "Chrysippus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/chrysippus/svf-2/"
    },
    {
        "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.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.de_divinatione",
        "title": "On Divination",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-divinatione/"
    },
    {
        "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.orator",
        "title": "Orator",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/orator/"
    },
    {
        "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": "confucius.analects",
        "title": "The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)",
        "author": "Confucius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/confucius/analects/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.laertius_book6",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/diogenes-laertius/laertius-book6/"
    },
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        "id": "elizabeth_carter.talbot_letters",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/talbot-letters/"
    },
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        "id": "elizabeth_carter.vesey_letters",
        "title": "Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/vesey-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.miscellaneous_prose",
        "title": "Miscellaneous Prose by Elizabeth Carter",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/miscellaneous-prose/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epictetus.discourses",
        "title": "Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epictetus/discourses/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epictetus.enchiridion",
        "title": "Enchiridion of Epictetus",
        "author": "Epictetus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epictetus/enchiridion/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.traumdeutung",
        "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/traumdeutung/"
    },
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        "id": "locke.essay_human_understanding",
        "title": "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/essay-human-understanding/"
    },
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        "id": "locke.second_treatise",
        "title": "Second Treatise of Government",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/second-treatise/"
    },
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        "id": "jung.collected_papers_analytical_psychology",
        "title": "Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/collected-papers-analytical-psychology/"
    },
    {
        "id": "jung.psychology_of_the_unconscious",
        "title": "Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the Libido",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/psychology-of-the-unconscious/"
    },
    {
        "id": "marcus_aurelius.meditations",
        "title": "Meditations",
        "author": "Marcus Aurelius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/marcus-aurelius/meditations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "montaigne.essais",
        "title": "The Essays",
        "author": "Michel de Montaigne",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/montaigne/essais/"
    },
    {
        "id": "moses.deuteronomy",
        "title": "Deuteronomy",
        "author": "Moses",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/moses/deuteronomy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "muhammad.quran",
        "title": "The Qur’an",
        "author": "Muhammad",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/muhammad/quran/"
    },
    {
        "id": "musonius_rufus.discourses",
        "title": "Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by Lucius",
        "author": "Musonius Rufus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/musonius-rufus/discourses/"
    },
    {
        "id": "panaetius.fowler_fragments",
        "title": "Panaetius Fragments in Fowler’s Edition",
        "author": "Panaetius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/panaetius/fowler-fragments/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.alcibiades_1",
        "title": "First Alcibiades",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/alcibiades-1/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.epinomis",
        "title": "Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the Laws",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/epinomis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.epistles",
        "title": "Letters Attributed to Plato",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/epistles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.euthydemus",
        "title": "Euthydemus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/euthydemus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.hippias_major",
        "title": "Hippias Major",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/hippias-major/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.ion",
        "title": "Ion",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/ion/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.laches",
        "title": "Laches",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/laches/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.laws",
        "title": "Laws",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/laws/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.lysis",
        "title": "Lysis",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/lysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.phaedo",
        "title": "Phaedo",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/phaedo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.philebus",
        "title": "Philebus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/philebus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.republic",
        "title": "Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.statesman",
        "title": "Statesman",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/statesman/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.symposium",
        "title": "Symposium",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/symposium/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.cato_younger",
        "title": "Cato the Younger",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/cato-younger/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.how_young_man_should_study_poetry",
        "title": "How a Young Man Should Study Poetry",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/how-young-man-should-study-poetry/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.common_conceptions_against_stoics",
        "title": "On Common Conceptions against the Stoics",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/common-conceptions-against-stoics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.on_curiosity",
        "title": "On Curiosity",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/on-curiosity/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.stoic_self_contradictions",
        "title": "On Stoic Self-Contradictions",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/stoic-self-contradictions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.table_talk",
        "title": "Table Talk",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/table-talk/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.stoics_more_absurd_than_poets",
        "title": "The Stoics Speak More Absurdly than the Poets",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/stoics-more-absurd-than-poets/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.consolatio_ad_polybium",
        "title": "Consolation to Polybius",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "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/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_clementia",
        "title": "On Clemency",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-clementia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_ira",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-ira/"
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    {
        "id": "seneca.epistulae_morales",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/moral-letters-to-lucilius/"
    },
    {
        "id": "sextus_empiricus.outlines",
        "title": "Outlines of Pyrrhonism",
        "author": "Sextus Empiricus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sextus-empiricus/outlines/"
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-gorgias/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_laches",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-laches/"
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    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_phaedo",
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        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-phaedo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_phaedrus",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-phaedrus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_protagoras",
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        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-protagoras/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_republic",
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        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-republic/"
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    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_symposium",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-symposium/"
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        "id": "socrates.xenophon_memorabilia",
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    {
        "id": "socrates.xenophon_oeconomicus",
        "title": "Socrates in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus",
        "author": "Xenophon",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/xenophon/xenophon-oeconomicus/"
    },
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        "id": "spinoza.ethics_fr",
        "title": "Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French Translation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/ethics-fr/"
    },
    {
        "id": "sunzi.sunzi_bingfa",
        "title": "Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of War",
        "author": "Sun Tzu",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sunzi/art-of-war/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_contra_gentiles",
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        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-contra-gentiles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_theologiae",
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        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
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    },
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        "id": "elizabeth_carter.edited_talbot",
        "title": "The Works of the Late Miss Catharine Talbot, an Editorial Volume Associated with Elizabeth Carter",
        "author": "Catharine Talbot",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/catharine-talbot/edited-talbot/"
    },
    {
        "id": "bible.old_testament",
        "title": "The Bible: Old Testament",
        "author": "Biblical traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/biblical-traditions/the-bible-old-testament/"
    },
    {
        "id": "bible.new_testament",
        "title": "The Bible: New Testament",
        "author": "Biblical traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/biblical-traditions/the-bible-new-testament/"
    }
]
```