# Aponia

- Id: `aponia`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/aponia/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `f1185d00295159a141bec11c7834e5ceb8173f8a21ae953bef9afec4f11b9b17`

## Summary

For Epicurus, pleasure as an end includes absence of bodily pain and absence of disturbance in the soul.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 341 passages across 82 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics, Metaphysics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:epicurus.letter_to_menoeceus:122-135"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "aponie",
    "aponia",
    "absence de douleur",
    "freedom from pain",
    "ἀπον"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 82,
    "passages": 341,
    "thinkers": 22,
    "traditions": 7
}
```

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