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Philosophical concept

Moral rightness and utility

Moral rightness and utility frame Cicero’s question whether apparent advantage can genuinely conflict with what is right.

Works
239
Passages
2,628
Thinkers
44
Traditions
15

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Moral rightness and utility frame Cicero’s question whether apparent advantage can genuinely conflict with what is right.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 2,628 passages across 239 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: honestum, utile, utility, expedien, moral rightness, honnête, utile

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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. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  8. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  13. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  14. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  15. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  16. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  17. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  18. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  19. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  20. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  21. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  22. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  23. On DutiesCicero · 374 passages
  24. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  25. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  26. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  27. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  28. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages
  29. On the LawsCicero · 0 passages
  30. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages