Philosophical concept
Civil war
Civil war pits members of one political community against one another and turns disputes over authority, territory, and rights into organized violence.
- Works
- 74
- Passages
- 20,384
- Thinkers
- 24
- Traditions
- 12
Understand uses of the concept
Civil war pits members of one political community against one another and turns disputes over authority, territory, and rights into organized violence.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 20,384 passages across 74 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Nicomachean Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: civil war, rebellion, insurrection, confederate
Works where the concept is identified
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 982 passages
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 19,210 passages
- Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
- PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
- AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
- Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
- Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
- Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
- Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
- On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
- On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
- PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
- Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
- The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
- Why War? Einstein’s Letter to FreudAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
- Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the BibleElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Poems on Several Occasions, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Hillel in Early Rabbinic CarriersHillel the Elder · 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
- The Theory of PsychoanalysisCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
- The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
- DeuteronomyMoses · 0 passages
- NumbersMoses · 0 passages