# Self-sufficiency

- Id: `self_sufficiency`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/self-sufficiency/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `b0404ccfcccad54e5988e2e69787aa5328d963e713689f6054d77407e58ae90d`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:plato.philebus:67",
    "passage:marcus_aurelius.meditations:6.16",
    "passage:aristotle.politics:7.1326b"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "self-sufficiency",
    "autosuffisance",
    "αὐτάρκ"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 43,
    "passages": 118,
    "thinkers": 18,
    "traditions": 7
}
```

## Related traditions

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    },
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        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
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    },
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        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

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        "author": "Correspondents and archival record",
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    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.eudemian_ethics",
        "title": "Eudemian Ethics",
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    },
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    },
    {
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    },
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]
```