# Classification of desires

- Id: `desire_classification`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/classification-of-desires/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `87c8002e109e08ae2c4cbbe2e903df9ffa121fb3162ff42d2e06f1ce0408ebf8`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:epicurus.principal_doctrines:29"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "désirs naturels",
    "desirs naturels",
    "natural desires",
    "necessary desires",
    "désirs nécessaires",
    "desirs necessaires",
    "empty desires",
    "vains désirs",
    "vains desirs"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 18,
    "passages": 25,
    "thinkers": 8,
    "traditions": 5
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "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/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "aristotle.nicomachean_ethics",
        "title": "Nicomachean Ethics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_finibus",
        "title": "On Ends",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-finibus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.tusculan_disputations",
        "title": "Tusculan Disputations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/tusculan-disputations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicurus.letter_to_menoeceus",
        "title": "Letter to Menoeceus",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/letter-to-menoeceus/"
    },
    {
        "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": "epicurus.vatican_sayings",
        "title": "Vatican Sayings",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/vatican-sayings/"
    },
    {
        "id": "locke.essay_human_understanding",
        "title": "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/essay-human-understanding/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.philebus",
        "title": "Philebus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/philebus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.republic",
        "title": "Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.moral_virtue",
        "title": "On Moral Virtue",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/moral-virtue/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_vita_beata",
        "title": "On the Happy Life",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-vita-beata/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.epistulae_morales",
        "title": "Moral Letters to Lucilius",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/moral-letters-to-lucilius/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_republic",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_theologiae",
        "title": "Summa Theologiae",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-theologiae/"
    }
]
```