Philosophical concept
Useful emptiness
In the received Daodejing, empty space makes a wheel, vessel, and room useful; absence has a concrete function.
- Works
- 3
- Passages
- 87
- Thinkers
- 3
- Traditions
- 1
Understand uses of the concept
In the received Daodejing, empty space makes a wheel, vessel, and room useful; absence has a concrete function.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 87 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: 虛, 虚, vide utile, useful emptiness
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