Philosophical concept
Simple living
Simple living reduces needs and possessions so conduct depends less on luxury and social approval.
- Works
- 6
- Passages
- 145
- Thinkers
- 6
- Traditions
- 2
Understand uses of the concept
Simple living reduces needs and possessions so conduct depends less on luxury and social approval.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 145 passages across 6 works, including Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic Orations, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes Laertius, Philosophies for Sale, Sections 7-11, by Lucian of Samosata. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
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Works where the concept is identified
- Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic OrationsDio Chrysostom · 0 passages
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes LaertiusDiogenes Laertius · 62 passages
- Philosophies for Sale, Sections 7-11, by Lucian of SamosataLucian of Samosata · 5 passages
- Life of Alexander, Chapter 14: The Encounter with Diogenes, by PlutarchPlutarch · 0 passages
- Pseudo-Diogenic EpistlesPseudo-Diogenes · 51 passages
- Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by LuciusMusonius Rufus · 21 passages