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Philosophical concept

Simple sufficiency

For Epicurus, self-sufficiency means being content with little when abundance is unavailable; simple food meets needs without requiring luxury.

Works
47
Passages
180
Thinkers
19
Traditions
8

Understand uses of the concept

For Epicurus, self-sufficiency means being content with little when abundance is unavailable; simple food meets needs without requiring luxury.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 180 passages across 47 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: pain et eau, bread and water, simple food, nourriture simple, 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 · 5 passages
  15. Vatican SayingsEpicurus · 61 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. On Tranquillity of MindSeneca · 0 passages
  30. Moral Letters to LuciliusSeneca · 0 passages