Classification of desires

For Epicurus, desires are natural and necessary, natural but unnecessary, or neither natural nor necessary, arising from empty opinions.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 25 passages across 18 works, including Nicomachean Ethics, On Ends, Tusculan Disputations. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: désirs naturels, desirs naturels, natural desires, necessary desires, désirs nécessaires, desirs necessaires, empty desires, vains désirs, vains desirs