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Philosophical concept

Prudent choice of pleasures

Epicurus advises weighing the consequences of pleasures and pains: declining a pleasure that brings greater distress or accepting pain that leads to greater pleasure.

Works
109
Passages
849
Thinkers
33
Traditions
14

Understand uses of the concept

Epicurus advises weighing the consequences of pleasures and pains: declining a pleasure that brings greater distress or accepting pain that leads to greater pleasure.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 849 passages across 109 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: choix prudent, prudent choice, choose every pleasure, we do not choose every pleasure, calcul des plaisirs, consequences

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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 · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  8. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  11. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  12. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  13. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  14. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  15. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  16. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  17. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  18. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  20. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  21. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes LaertiusDiogenes Laertius · 0 passages
  22. Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity, Nobel LectureAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  23. Geometry and Experience, French TranslationAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  24. Sidelights on RelativityAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  25. The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  26. The Meaning of RelativityAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  27. The Principle of Relativity: Selected Papers by EinsteinAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  28. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  29. Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  30. Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages