Philosophical concept
Yi, fitting rightness
Yi is fitting rightness, choosing an action because it is morally appropriate rather than merely advantageous.
- Works
- 79
- Passages
- 258
- Thinkers
- 24
- Traditions
- 13
Understand uses of the concept
Yi is fitting rightness, choosing an action because it is morally appropriate rather than merely advantageous.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 258 passages across 79 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: 義, 义, rightness, justice appropriée
Works where the concept is identified
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
- Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
- Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
- Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
- Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
- Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
- Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
- AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
- Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
- Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
- On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
- On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
- Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
- The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
- Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Letter to PythoclesEpicurus · 0 passages
- An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
- Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke · 0 passages
- Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
- Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the LibidoCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
- Daodejing, Book of the Way and VirtueLaozi · 0 passages
- MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 0 passages
- The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
- DeuteronomyMoses · 0 passages
- The Qur’anMuhammad · 0 passages
- CharmidesPlato · 0 passages
- EuthydemusPlato · 0 passages
- GorgiasPlato · 0 passages