Concept

Parable

Overview

short didactic story which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Parable

• Zhuang Zhou
• Søren Kierkegaard
• John A. Leslie

Related ideas

• Socratic dialogue
• Analogy
• Jesus
• Animal
• Greek language
• Gnosticism
• Gospel
• Middle Ages
• Metaphor
• New Testament
• Old Testament
• Plato
• Narrative
• Sufism
• Talmud
• Bible
• Quran
• Morality
• Socratic method
• Abstract and concrete
• Prose
• Islam
• Cicero
• Economics

Opposing perspectives

• Narrative
• Action (philosophy)
• Paradigm

Place in the tradition

Part of Absurdism.

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