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Philosophical concept

Tranquillity

Tranquillity is steadiness of mind grounded not in an absence of events but in a disciplined relation to judgements and desires.

Works
246
Passages
2,462
Thinkers
41
Traditions
15

Understand uses of the concept

Tranquillity is steadiness of mind grounded not in an absence of events but in a disciplined relation to judgements and desires.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 2,462 passages across 246 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: tranquill, peace of mind, quiet, ηρεμ, ἀταραξ

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  8. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  14. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  15. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  16. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  17. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  18. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  20. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  21. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  22. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  23. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  24. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  25. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  26. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  27. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  28. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages
  29. On the LawsCicero · 0 passages
  30. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages