concept

Dé

Beliefs & concepts

Virtue-power or attained potency in Chinese doctrinal speech. Not dao as the published way/weapon neighbor, and not ren as humaneness alone.

Also known as De · Te · Te-virtue

Chinese tradition

  • Dé appears in Chinese tradition.

    Wilhelm’s Yijing and Ten Wings speech seat dé (virtue-power / attained potency) among the moral and cosmological vocabulary of the Changes. A named de in that classic’s Chinese doctrinal neighborhood, not dao as the published way/weapon neighbor and not ren as humaneness alone.

    from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)

    The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.