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Philosophical concept

Attachment

Attachment becomes problematic when it turns a bond or good into a demand for possession and fear of loss.

Works
66
Passages
355
Thinkers
25
Traditions
13

Understand uses of the concept

Attachment becomes problematic when it turns a bond or good into a demand for possession and fear of loss.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 355 passages across 66 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Nicomachean Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: attachement, attachment, fear of loss, peur de perdre

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. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  5. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  6. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  7. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  8. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  11. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  12. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  13. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  14. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  15. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  16. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  17. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  18. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  19. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  20. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  21. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes LaertiusDiogenes Laertius · 0 passages
  22. The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  23. Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  24. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine TalbotElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  25. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  26. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth VeseyElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  27. Miscellaneous Prose by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  28. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  29. Surviving Fragments of EpicurusEpicurus · 0 passages
  30. An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages