Philosophical concept
Softness
In the received Daodejing, soft water overcomes what is hard; the text says the weak can prevail over the strong.
- Works
- 91
- Passages
- 371
- Thinkers
- 29
- Traditions
- 11
Understand uses of the concept
In the received Daodejing, soft water overcomes what is hard; the text says the weak can prevail over the strong.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 371 passages across 91 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Metaphysics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: 柔, souplesse, softness, yielding
Works where the concept is identified
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
- MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
- Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
- PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
- Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
- Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
- Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
- AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
- Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
- Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
- Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
- On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
- On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
- PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
- Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
- The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
- Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic OrationsDio Chrysostom · 0 passages
- Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Miscellaneous Prose by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Poems on Several Occasions, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
- An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
- Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke · 0 passages
- Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
- Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the LibidoCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
- Daodejing, Book of the Way and VirtueLaozi · 81 passages
- MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 0 passages