# Voluntary poverty

- Id: `voluntary_poverty`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/voluntary-poverty/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `a139f25504c0cd32ff1deaab5582b1804215bf034fcbc5a302d9ef138d91bcaf`

## Summary

Voluntary poverty is a chosen relinquishment of possession and accumulation. It never justifies imposed deprivation, contempt for poor people, or refusal of needed care.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:francis_of_assisi.testament:T.9",
    "passage:francis_of_assisi.later_rule:R.9",
    "passage:francis_of_assisi.testament:T.8"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 23,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "francis_of_assisi.later_rule",
        "title": "Later Rule",
        "author": "Francis of Assisi",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/francis-of-assisi/later-rule/"
    },
    {
        "id": "francis_of_assisi.testament",
        "title": "Testament",
        "author": "Francis of Assisi",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/francis-of-assisi/testament/"
    }
]
```