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Philosophical concept

Parable and reversal

Parable and reversal shift the reader’s judgement through a story in which familiar places, values, or expectations are overturned.

Works
140
Passages
548
Thinkers
33
Traditions
15

Understand uses of the concept

Parable and reversal shift the reader’s judgement through a story in which familiar places, values, or expectations are overturned.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 548 passages across 140 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: parable, parabole

Related traditions

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. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  9. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  14. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  15. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  16. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  17. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  18. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  19. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  20. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  21. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  22. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  23. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  24. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  25. On the RepublicCicero · 0 passages
  26. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  27. Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel LectureAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  28. Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English TranslationAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  29. The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  30. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages