Philosophical concept

Ataraxia

Ataraxia is lasting freedom from disturbance sought by Hellenistic schools through different diagnoses.

Works
16
Passages
158
Thinkers
8
Traditions
5

Understand uses of the concept

Ataraxia is lasting freedom from disturbance sought by Hellenistic schools through different diagnoses.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 158 passages across 16 works, including Ancient testimonia on Carneades, Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian, Enchiridion of Epictetus. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: ataraxie, ataraxia, absence de trouble, freedom from disturbance, ἀταραξ

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  2. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  3. Enchiridion of EpictetusEpictetus · 0 passages
  4. Letter to HerodotusEpicurus · 1 passages
  5. Letter to MenoeceusEpicurus · 1 passages
  6. Letter to PythoclesEpicurus · 1 passages
  7. Principal DoctrinesEpicurus · 80 passages
  8. Surviving Fragments of EpicurusEpicurus · 48 passages
  9. MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 0 passages
  10. The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
  11. On the Genealogy of MoralityFriedrich Nietzsche · 0 passages
  12. PhaedoPlato · 0 passages
  13. Outlines of PyrrhonismSextus Empiricus · 3 passages
  14. Socrates in Plato’s PhaedoPlato · 0 passages