Philosophical concept

Self-command

Self-command is the capacity not to let an immediate impulse decide action by itself.

Works
7
Passages
76
Thinkers
6
Traditions
3

Understand uses of the concept

Self-command is the capacity not to let an immediate impulse decide action by itself.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 76 passages across 7 works, including Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of Chios, Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses, Meditations. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: self-command, maîtrise de soi

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 55 passages
  2. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  3. MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 0 passages
  4. Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by LuciusMusonius Rufus · 0 passages
  5. Moral Letters to LuciliusSeneca · 0 passages
  6. Diogenes Laertius II.11: StilpoStilpo of Megara · 7 passages