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Philosophical concept

Prophecy

Prophecy conveys speech held to be divine in order to warn, judge, console, or guide a community.

Works
167
Passages
1,719
Thinkers
33
Traditions
15

Understand uses of the concept

Prophecy conveys speech held to be divine in order to warn, judge, console, or guide a community.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,719 passages across 167 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Nicomachean Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: prophete, prophète, prophecy, prophet, prophetia, نبي, رسول

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. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  5. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  6. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  7. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  8. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  9. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  10. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  11. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  12. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  13. Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic OrationsDio Chrysostom · 0 passages
  14. Philosophies for Sale, Sections 7-11, by Lucian of SamosataLucian of Samosata · 0 passages
  15. Life of Alexander, Chapter 14: The Encounter with Diogenes, by PlutarchPlutarch · 1 passages
  16. The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  17. The Meaning of RelativityAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  18. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  19. Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  20. Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  21. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  22. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  23. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  24. Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the BibleElizabeth Carter · 32 passages
  25. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  26. Surviving Fragments of EpicurusEpicurus · 0 passages
  27. Vatican SayingsEpicurus · 0 passages
  28. The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud · 0 passages
  29. Hillel in Early Rabbinic CarriersHillel the Elder · 0 passages
  30. An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages