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Philosophical concept

Ressentiment

Ressentiment names a reactive production of values: blocked hostility reverses judgments and calls evil what it cannot attain, rather than merely describing ordinary resentment.

Works
205
Passages
4,827
Thinkers
39
Traditions
14

Understand uses of the concept

Ressentiment names a reactive production of values: blocked hostility reverses judgments and calls evil what it cannot attain, rather than merely describing ordinary resentment.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 4,827 passages across 205 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: ressentiment, rache, revenge, vengeance

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  7. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  8. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  10. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  11. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  12. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  13. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  14. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  15. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  16. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  17. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  18. On the RepublicCicero · 0 passages
  19. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  20. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  21. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  22. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes LaertiusDiogenes Laertius · 0 passages
  23. The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  24. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  25. Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  26. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  27. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  28. Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the BibleElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  29. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  30. Fragments Attributed to EpictetusEpictetus · 0 passages