Philosophical concept

Care of the soul

In Plato’s Apology, Socrates urges care for the soul before body and property so that the soul may become as good as possible.

Works
374
Passages
38,417
Thinkers
54
Traditions
17

Understand uses of the concept

In Plato’s Apology, Socrates urges care for the soul before body and property so that the soul may become as good as possible.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 38,417 passages across 374 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of Chios. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: soin de l’âme, soin de l'âme, care of the soul, soul, âme, ψυχ

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 391 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 8,554 passages
  3. Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 0 passages
  4. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 38 passages
  5. MetaphysicsAristotle · 125 passages
  6. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 108 passages
  7. PoeticsAristotle · 21 passages
  8. PoliticsAristotle · 159 passages
  9. RhetoricAristotle · 253 passages
  10. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 1,070 passages
  11. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 25 passages
  12. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 34 passages
  13. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 151 passages
  14. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 1,048 passages
  15. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 58 passages
  16. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 66 passages
  17. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 195 passages
  18. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 66 passages
  19. AcademicaCicero · 18 passages
  20. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 117 passages
  21. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 41 passages
  22. Letters to AtticusCicero · 562 passages
  23. Letters to FriendsCicero · 515 passages
  24. Letters to QuintusCicero · 74 passages
  25. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 52 passages
  26. On DivinationCicero · 57 passages
  27. On DutiesCicero · 93 passages
  28. On EndsCicero · 160 passages
  29. On FateCicero · 18 passages
  30. On FriendshipCicero · 58 passages