# Wuwei, action without forcing

- Id: `wuwei`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/wuwei-action-without-forcing/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `4823f7b1c7b9c342daca180cc0e7a4f169ded08f1763ee5f7edd32bc15c076bf`

## Summary

In the received Daodejing, the Dao is said to act without doing yet leave nothing undone; beings transform of themselves if rulers keep to it.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 87 passages across 4 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Psychological Types, Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue. 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:laozi.daodejing:37"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "無為",
    "无为",
    "wuwei",
    "non-agir",
    "non-action"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 4,
    "passages": 87,
    "thinkers": 4,
    "traditions": 4
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "political-thought",
        "name": "Political thought and democracy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/political-thought-and-democracy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "psychology",
        "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/psychology-and-psychoanalysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "chinese-thought",
        "name": "Early Chinese thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/early-chinese-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## 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": "jung.psychologische_typen",
        "title": "Psychological Types",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/psychologische-typen/"
    },
    {
        "id": "laozi.daodejing",
        "title": "Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue",
        "author": "Laozi",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/laozi/daodejing/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_theologiae",
        "title": "Summa Theologiae",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-theologiae/"
    }
]
```