Compendium , compendium ( Latin compendium - weigh together from com- "together" + pendere "weigh") - an abbreviated statement of the main provisions of a discipline.
A concise summary of the main points.
The following statement of Karl Marx from his work “ Towards a Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of Law ” is widely known:
Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopedic compendium, its logic in a popular form, its spiritualistic point d'honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn fulfillment, its universal basis for comfort and justification.
C. Marx and F. Engels. Selected works in three volumes. T. 3. M. Politizdat, 1966, p. 66:
To learn dialectics from Kant would be unnecessarily tedious and ungrateful work, since in Hegel's works we have an extensive compendium of dialectics.
Examples of existing compendiums
- Catechism Compendium of the Catholic Church
- Compendium of Chemical Terminology - a book compiled by the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Chemistry .
See also
- Encyclopedia