# Life in agreement with nature

- Id: `life_in_agreement`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/life-in-agreement-with-nature/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `b17343b3498065fef44a01079a98af3ea8722dcab060d0602b5eb3d99121b793`

## Summary

Life in agreement with nature is the Stoic formula for conduct coherent with reason, human constitution, and cosmic order.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 580 passages across 51 works, including Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics. 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:plutarch.common_conceptions_against_stoics:14",
    "passage:epictetus.discourses:1.4",
    "passage:seneca.epistulae_morales:66.41"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "ὁμολογουμένως",
    "secundum naturam",
    "agreement with nature",
    "accord avec la nature"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 51,
    "passages": 580,
    "thinkers": 18,
    "traditions": 6
}
```

## Related traditions

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        "id": "christianity",
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    }
]
```

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        "id": "aristotle.nicomachean_ethics",
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```