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Definition of Ataraxy

1. ataraxia [n -RAXIES] - See also: ataraxia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ataraxy

Literary usage of Ataraxy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The School of Plato: Its Origin, Development, and Revival Under the Roman Empire by Frederick William Bussell (1896)
"... CHAPTER II ORIGIN OF DOUBT, WHETHER COMPLACENT OR PESSIMISTIC, AS A LEADING PRINCIPLE IN THOUGHT; AND THE THREE SCHOOLS OF RESULTING ataraxy § 1. ..."

2. Course of the History of Modern Philosophy by Victor Cousin, Orlando Williams Wight (1856)
"And that is only the theoretical end of skepticism : its practical end is ataraxy, impassibility; and the favorite maxim of Sextus was: Neither this nor ..."

3. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion by Hermann Lotze, Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare (1892)
"The stoics put forward as the ideal of life for the wise an immobility of character, in Greek phrase ataraxy, which they associated indissolubly with the ..."

4. Æsthetics by Eugène Véron (1879)
"Upon this point the Epicureans agreed with the Stoics ; the only difference was that the former called it ataraxy, and the latter apathy,1 words which have ..."

5. Ancient European Philosophy: The History of Greek Philosophy Psychologically by Denton Jaques Snider (1903)
"The Epicurean answer is, ataraxy, ... colossal threatening demon, but we shall flee from him into our little garden of pleasure and there cultivate ataraxy. ..."

6. A History of French Literature by Charles Henry Conrad Wright (1912)
"Finally, when he has enlarged his observation through travel and come into new contact with life in the mayoralty, the ataraxy passes into ..."

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