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Philosophical concept

Spirit

Spirit can mean vital breath, an inner principle, or divine presence; context must distinguish these uses.

Works
299
Passages
7,725
Thinkers
50
Traditions
17

Understand uses of the concept

Spirit can mean vital breath, an inner principle, or divine presence; context must distinguish these uses.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 7,725 passages across 299 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: esprit, spirit, spiritus

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. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  7. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  8. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha 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. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  14. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  15. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  16. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  17. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  18. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  20. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  21. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  22. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  23. On DutiesCicero · 0 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 Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  30. On the RepublicCicero · 0 passages