Philosophical concept

Custom and habit

Custom shapes expectations and conduct so deeply that a local rule can appear natural; comparison with other practices makes judgment available again.

Works
10
Passages
115
Thinkers
6
Traditions
4

Understand uses of the concept

Custom shapes expectations and conduct so deeply that a local rule can appear natural; comparison with other practices makes judgment available again.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 115 passages across 10 works, including Politics, Academica, 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: coutume et habitude, custom and habit, force de la coutume, force of custom, accoutumance

Works where the concept is identified

  1. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  2. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  3. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  4. An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
  5. The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 106 passages
  6. On ProvidenceSeneca · 0 passages
  7. On Tranquillity of MindSeneca · 0 passages
  8. Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas · 0 passages