Philosophical concept
Non-contention
In the received Daodejing, water benefits all without contending and occupies places others shun; it models action without quarrel.
- Works
- 3
- Passages
- 84
- Thinkers
- 3
- Traditions
- 1
Understand uses of the concept
In the received Daodejing, water benefits all without contending and occupies places others shun; it models action without quarrel.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 84 passages across 3 works, including The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ), Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue, Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of War. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: 不爭, 不争, non-contention, sans rivaliser
Works where the concept is identified
- The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
- Daodejing, Book of the Way and VirtueLaozi · 81 passages
- Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of WarSun Tzu · 0 passages