Philosophical concept
Strategic formlessness
In the received Sunzi, command conceals the disposition of forces and does not mechanically repeat the pattern of a past victory.
- Works
- 9
- Passages
- 41
- Thinkers
- 6
- Traditions
- 5
Understand uses of the concept
In the received Sunzi, command conceals the disposition of forces and does not mechanically repeat the pattern of a past victory.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 41 passages across 9 works, including Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses, Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length Discourses, Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: 無形, formlessness, sans forme
Works where the concept is identified
- Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
- Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
- Daodejing, Book of the Way and VirtueLaozi · 0 passages
- The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
- LawsPlato · 0 passages
- Socrates in Plato’s PhaedrusPlato · 0 passages
- Sunzi Bingfa, The Art of WarSun Tzu · 13 passages
- Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas · 0 passages