Philosophical concept
Craving
Craving is the thirst that clings to pleasure, existence, or non-existence and sustains dukkha.
- Works
- 90
- Passages
- 3,726
- Thinkers
- 29
- Traditions
- 14
Understand uses of the concept
Craving is the thirst that clings to pleasure, existence, or non-existence and sustains dukkha.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 3,726 passages across 90 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses, Dhammapada: Verses on the Dhamma. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: taṇhā, tanha, craving, soif
Works where the concept is identified
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
- Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 1,408 passages
- Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
- Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
- Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 152 passages
- Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 1,819 passages
- Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 73 passages
- Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
- On EndsCicero · 0 passages
- Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
- Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic OrationsDio Chrysostom · 0 passages
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes LaertiusDiogenes Laertius · 0 passages
- Why War? Einstein’s Letter to FreudAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
- Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
- Enchiridion of EpictetusEpictetus · 0 passages
- An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
- Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke · 0 passages
- Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
- The Theory of PsychoanalysisCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
- Daodejing, Book of the Way and VirtueLaozi · 0 passages
- MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 0 passages
- The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
- DeuteronomyMoses · 0 passages
- ExodusMoses · 0 passages
- The Qur’anMuhammad · 0 passages
- Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by LuciusMusonius Rufus · 0 passages
- CritiasPlato · 0 passages
- Letters Attributed to PlatoPlato · 0 passages
- IonPlato · 0 passages
- LawsPlato · 0 passages