# Ziran, self-so

- Id: `ziran`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/ziran-self-so/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `403fb6a5c2683784b76e90ce7dddf17eff7c9a5f4c061e320eb26b9a653ac8e5`

## Summary

Ziran, literally being so of itself, names the spontaneity of what unfolds without artificial constraint.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 82 passages across 2 works, including Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue, Moral Letters to Lucilius. 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:seneca.epistulae_morales:77.7",
    "passage:laozi.daodejing:64",
    "passage:laozi.daodejing:51"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "自然",
    "ziran",
    "self-so"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 82,
    "thinkers": 2,
    "traditions": 2
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "chinese-thought",
        "name": "Early Chinese thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/early-chinese-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "laozi.daodejing",
        "title": "Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue",
        "author": "Laozi",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/laozi/daodejing/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.epistulae_morales",
        "title": "Moral Letters to Lucilius",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/moral-letters-to-lucilius/"
    }
]
```