Philosophical concept
Voluntary poverty
Voluntary poverty is a chosen relinquishment of possession and accumulation. It never justifies imposed deprivation, contempt for poor people, or refusal of needed care.
- Works
- 2
- Passages
- 23
- Thinkers
- 1
- Traditions
- 1
Understand uses of the concept
Voluntary poverty is a chosen relinquishment of possession and accumulation. It never justifies imposed deprivation, contempt for poor people, or refusal of needed care.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 23 passages across 2 works, including Later Rule, Testament. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
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Works where the concept is identified
- Later RuleFrancis of Assisi · 12 passages
- TestamentFrancis of Assisi · 11 passages