# Simple living

- Id: `simple_living`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/simple-living/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `b6ffa0f26e12fc86291ececc2df30144269ed475078825b05980c9b78736f8d8`

## Summary

Simple living reduces needs and possessions so conduct depends less on luxury and social approval.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:musonius_rufus.discourses:9",
    "passage:diogenes.laertius_book6:81",
    "passage:musonius_rufus.discourses:8"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 6,
    "passages": 145,
    "thinkers": 6,
    "traditions": 2
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
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    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "diogenes.dio_orations",
        "title": "Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic Orations",
        "author": "Dio Chrysostom",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/dio-chrysostom/dio-orations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.laertius_book6",
        "title": "Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes Laertius",
        "author": "Diogenes Laertius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/diogenes-laertius/laertius-book6/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.lucian_sale",
        "title": "Philosophies for Sale, Sections 7-11, by Lucian of Samosata",
        "author": "Lucian of Samosata",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/lucian/lucian-sale/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.plutarch_alexander",
        "title": "Life of Alexander, Chapter 14: The Encounter with Diogenes, by Plutarch",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-alexander/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.pseudo_epistles",
        "title": "Pseudo-Diogenic Epistles",
        "author": "Pseudo-Diogenes",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/pseudo-diogenes/pseudo-epistles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "musonius_rufus.discourses",
        "title": "Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by Lucius",
        "author": "Musonius Rufus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/musonius-rufus/discourses/"
    }
]
```