# Yi, fitting rightness

- Id: `yi_rightness`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/yi-fitting-rightness/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `99062e3ca402eefb39c72a71fb147ee9fc9cd4d22660315b46419bc3702c6822`

## Summary

Yi is fitting rightness, choosing an action because it is morally appropriate rather than merely advantageous.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:confucius.analects:6",
    "passage:spinoza.theologico_political_treatise_en:section-0306",
    "passage:socrates.xenophon_memorabilia:4.3"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "義",
    "义",
    "rightness",
    "justice appropriée"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 79,
    "passages": 258,
    "thinkers": 24,
    "traditions": 13
}
```

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