# Winning without battle

- Id: `winning_without_battle`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/winning-without-battle/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `2e65b135232ab4d2ad3dc3c68ae40a2754677aa9beb23f4039df98f9ec86e14b`

## Summary

In the received Sunzi, the best victory subdues opposing forces without battle and attacks their plans first.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:sunzi.sunzi_bingfa:3"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "不戰而屈人之兵",
    "without fighting",
    "sans combattre"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 7,
    "passages": 23,
    "thinkers": 6,
    "traditions": 5
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "political-thought",
        "name": "Political thought and democracy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/political-thought-and-democracy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "chinese-thought",
        "name": "Early Chinese thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/early-chinese-thought/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_context",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents",
        "author": "Correspondents and archival record",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln-archive-correspondents/incoming-mail-and-context/"
    },
    {
        "id": "montaigne.essais",
        "title": "The Essays",
        "author": "Michel de Montaigne",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/montaigne/essais/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.charmides",
        "title": "Charmides",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/charmides/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.cato_younger",
        "title": "Cato the Younger",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/cato-younger/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.naturales_quaestiones",
        "title": "Natural Questions",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/naturales-quaestiones/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_charmides",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Charmides",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-charmides/"
    },
    {
        "id": "sunzi.sunzi_bingfa",
        "title": "Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of War",
        "author": "Sun Tzu",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sunzi/art-of-war/"
    }
]
```