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Philosophical concept

Impermanence

Impermanence holds that conditioned phenomena arise, change, and cease without providing lasting ground.

Works
51
Passages
3,504
Thinkers
16
Traditions
10

Understand uses of the concept

Impermanence holds that conditioned phenomena arise, change, and cease without providing lasting ground.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 3,504 passages across 51 works, including Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses, Dhammapada: Verses on the Dhamma, Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: anicca, impermanent, impermanence, changeant

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 1,408 passages
  2. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 26 passages
  3. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 34 passages
  4. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 152 passages
  5. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 1,819 passages
  6. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  7. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  8. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  9. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  10. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  11. Letter to MenoeceusEpicurus · 0 passages
  12. An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
  13. MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 0 passages
  14. The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
  15. DeuteronomyMoses · 0 passages
  16. GenesisMoses · 0 passages
  17. NumbersMoses · 0 passages
  18. CratylusPlato · 0 passages
  19. Letters Attributed to PlatoPlato · 0 passages
  20. LawsPlato · 0 passages
  21. ParmenidesPlato · 0 passages
  22. RepublicPlato · 0 passages
  23. SophistPlato · 0 passages
  24. StatesmanPlato · 0 passages
  25. Consolation to MarciaSeneca · 0 passages
  26. On BenefitsSeneca · 0 passages
  27. On AngerSeneca · 0 passages
  28. On LeisureSeneca · 0 passages
  29. On Tranquillity of MindSeneca · 0 passages
  30. On the Happy LifeSeneca · 0 passages