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Philosophical concept

Self-governance

Self-governance is the capacity to order impulses, habits, and decisions without surrendering one’s conduct to circumstance.

Works
182
Passages
3,008
Thinkers
38
Traditions
13

Understand uses of the concept

Self-governance is the capacity to order impulses, habits, and decisions without surrendering one’s conduct to circumstance.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 3,008 passages across 182 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: maitrise, maîtrise, self-control, temperance, temperantia, σωφρο

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. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 116 passages
  6. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  9. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha 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. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  15. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  16. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  17. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 203 passages
  18. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  19. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  20. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  21. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  22. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  23. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  24. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  25. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  26. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  27. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  28. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  29. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages
  30. On the LawsCicero · 0 passages