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Philosophical concept

Self-sufficiency

Self-sufficiency is the capacity to live and act with as little dependence as possible on external goods.

Works
43
Passages
118
Thinkers
18
Traditions
7

Understand uses of the concept

Self-sufficiency is the capacity to live and act with as little dependence as possible on external goods.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 118 passages across 43 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics, Metaphysics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: self-sufficiency, autosuffisance, αὐτάρκ

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  2. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  3. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  7. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  8. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  9. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  10. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes LaertiusDiogenes Laertius · 0 passages
  11. Pseudo-Diogenic EpistlesPseudo-Diogenes · 0 passages
  12. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  13. Letter to MenoeceusEpicurus · 0 passages
  14. Surviving Fragments of EpicurusEpicurus · 4 passages
  15. Vatican SayingsEpicurus · 0 passages
  16. MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 0 passages
  17. Panaetius Fragments in Fowler’s EditionPanaetius · 0 passages
  18. PhilebusPlato · 0 passages
  19. RepublicPlato · 0 passages
  20. StatesmanPlato · 0 passages
  21. TheaetetusPlato · 0 passages
  22. TimaeusPlato · 0 passages
  23. AlexanderPlutarch · 0 passages
  24. On Common Conceptions against the StoicsPlutarch · 0 passages
  25. On Stoic Self-ContradictionsPlutarch · 0 passages
  26. On the Control of AngerPlutarch · 0 passages
  27. Table TalkPlutarch · 0 passages
  28. The Stoics Speak More Absurdly than the PoetsPlutarch · 0 passages
  29. Against the Ethicists, Book XI of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus · 0 passages
  30. Against the Logicians, Books VII-VIII of Against the LearnedSextus Empiricus · 0 passages