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Philosophical concept

Compassion

Compassion answers another’s suffering with the wish and action to alleviate it.

Works
93
Passages
1,930
Thinkers
24
Traditions
13

Understand uses of the concept

Compassion answers another’s suffering with the wish and action to alleviate it.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,930 passages across 93 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Politics, Rhetoric. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: karuṇā, karuna, compassion

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  2. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  3. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  4. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 1,408 passages
  5. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 26 passages
  6. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  7. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 152 passages
  8. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 73 passages
  10. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  11. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  12. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  13. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  14. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  15. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  16. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  17. Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  18. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  19. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  20. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  21. Miscellaneous Prose by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  22. Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the BibleElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  23. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  24. An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
  25. Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  26. Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the LibidoCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  27. The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
  28. DeuteronomyMoses · 0 passages
  29. ExodusMoses · 0 passages
  30. The Qur’anMuhammad · 0 passages