Philosophical concept
Winning without battle
In the received Sunzi, the best victory subdues opposing forces without battle and attacks their plans first.
- Works
- 7
- Passages
- 23
- Thinkers
- 6
- Traditions
- 5
Understand uses of the concept
In the received Sunzi, the best victory subdues opposing forces without battle and attacks their plans first.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 23 passages across 7 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, The Essays, Charmides. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: 不戰而屈人之兵, without fighting, sans combattre
Works where the concept is identified
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
- The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
- CharmidesPlato · 0 passages
- Cato the YoungerPlutarch · 0 passages
- Natural QuestionsSeneca · 0 passages
- Socrates in Plato’s CharmidesPlato · 0 passages
- Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of WarSun Tzu · 0 passages