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Philosophical concept

Necessity

Necessity describes what follows from a cause or divine nature in an order excluding absolute contingency.

Works
215
Passages
7,374
Thinkers
43
Traditions
16

Understand uses of the concept

Necessity describes what follows from a cause or divine nature in an order excluding absolute contingency.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 7,374 passages across 215 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: nécessité, necessity, necessary

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. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 142 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  9. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  13. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  14. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  15. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  16. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  17. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  18. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  19. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  20. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  21. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  22. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  23. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  24. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  25. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  26. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  27. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  28. Pearson: Cleanthes fragmentsCleanthes · 0 passages
  29. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  30. Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic OrationsDio Chrysostom · 0 passages