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Philosophical concept

Nature

Nature can mean the order of the world, the constitution of a being, or what happens without artifice. Reading the term requires attention to scale and argument.

Works
289
Passages
15,784
Thinkers
51
Traditions
17

Understand uses of the concept

Nature can mean the order of the world, the constitution of a being, or what happens without artifice. Reading the term requires attention to scale and argument.

Living according to nature is not a transparent instruction. The phrase changes across Stoic, Epicurean, and other texts. The passages gathered here let readers examine what each text includes in nature and what conduct it derives from it.

Lexical variants: nature, natura, φυσι, φύσι

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 7 passages
  4. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 35 passages
  5. MetaphysicsAristotle · 142 passages
  6. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 84 passages
  7. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  9. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  10. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  14. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  15. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  16. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  17. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 348 passages
  18. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 51 passages
  19. AcademicaCicero · 16 passages
  20. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 29 passages
  21. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  22. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  23. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  24. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  25. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 30 passages
  26. On DivinationCicero · 77 passages
  27. On DutiesCicero · 81 passages
  28. On EndsCicero · 172 passages
  29. On FateCicero · 49 passages
  30. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages