# Cosmic tension

- Id: `cosmic_tension`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/cosmic-tension/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `cef9feb02f7709906ee64cc4284769484f7cd6b93937c79c80cfb3a9823d8fe4`

## Summary

Cosmic tension names a sustaining and organizing force attributed to the corporeal world in Cleanthes; later witnesses must remain visible in every reconstruction.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 132 passages across 3 works, including Hymn to Zeus, SVF I: Cleanthes, Pearson: Cleanthes fragments. 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:cleanthes.svf_1:scan-188",
    "passage:cleanthes.pearson_fragments:scan-340",
    "passage:cleanthes.hymn_to_zeus:hymn"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 3,
    "passages": 132,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

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

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "cleanthes.hymn_to_zeus",
        "title": "Hymn to Zeus",
        "author": "Cleanthes",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cleanthes/hymn-to-zeus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cleanthes.svf_1",
        "title": "SVF I: Cleanthes",
        "author": "Cleanthes",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cleanthes/svf-1/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cleanthes.pearson_fragments",
        "title": "Pearson: Cleanthes fragments",
        "author": "Cleanthes",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cleanthes/pearson-fragments/"
    }
]
```