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Philosophical concept

Fortune

Fortune names the unstable course of events beyond our control that redistributes goods, rank, health, or success.

Works
241
Passages
5,749
Thinkers
47
Traditions
16

Understand uses of the concept

Fortune names the unstable course of events beyond our control that redistributes goods, rank, health, or success.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 5,749 passages across 241 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: fortune, fortuna, τυχη, τύχη

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. Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 0 passages
  4. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  9. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  10. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  14. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  15. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  16. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  17. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  18. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  20. Letters to AtticusCicero · 1,481 passages
  21. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  22. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  23. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  24. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  25. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  26. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  27. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  28. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  29. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  30. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages