# Ataraxia

- Id: `ataraxia`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/ataraxia/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `5bbc6f0f3c9d8d2e9e40519a16d35f20e3406776417b84956ec65c939d1a556c`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:sextus_empiricus.outlines:1",
    "passage:schopenhauer.world:supplement-16",
    "passage:epicurus.letter_to_pythocles:84-116"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "ataraxie",
    "ataraxia",
    "absence de trouble",
    "freedom from disturbance",
    "ἀταραξ"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 16,
    "passages": 158,
    "thinkers": 8,
    "traditions": 5
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicureanism",
        "name": "Epicureanism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/epicureanism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "carneades.ancient_testimonia",
        "title": "Ancient testimonia on Carneades",
        "author": "Carneades",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/carneades/ancient-testimonia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epictetus.discourses",
        "title": "Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian",
        "author": "Epictetus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epictetus/discourses/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epictetus.enchiridion",
        "title": "Enchiridion of Epictetus",
        "author": "Epictetus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epictetus/enchiridion/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicurus.letter_to_herodotus",
        "title": "Letter to Herodotus",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/letter-to-herodotus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicurus.letter_to_menoeceus",
        "title": "Letter to Menoeceus",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/letter-to-menoeceus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicurus.letter_to_pythocles",
        "title": "Letter to Pythocles",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/letter-to-pythocles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicurus.principal_doctrines",
        "title": "Principal Doctrines",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/principal-doctrines/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicurus.fragments",
        "title": "Surviving Fragments of Epicurus",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/fragments/"
    },
    {
        "id": "marcus_aurelius.meditations",
        "title": "Meditations",
        "author": "Marcus Aurelius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/marcus-aurelius/meditations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "montaigne.essais",
        "title": "The Essays",
        "author": "Michel de Montaigne",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/montaigne/essais/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.genealogy_morality",
        "title": "On the Genealogy of Morality",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/genealogy-morality/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.phaedo",
        "title": "Phaedo",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/phaedo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "sextus_empiricus.outlines",
        "title": "Outlines of Pyrrhonism",
        "author": "Sextus Empiricus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sextus-empiricus/outlines/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_phaedo",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-phaedo/"
    }
]
```