Needlessness

Needlessness corresponds to the attitude to be free from needs . So far, no one is capable of this balanced state. Because only those who satisfy their very own needs, such as hunger and thirst , live on. So humans are not self-sufficient . Thus, philosophy understands needlessness to be the lowest possible level of neediness. Socrates , the Stoics and the Cynics understood this degree as an ethical goal. According to Antisthenes , needlessness is a liberating virtue.

See also

• asceticism
• Self-sufficiency
• Simple life
• Fast
• Voluntarily chosen poverty
• nirvana
• Tanha
• will
• Desire , desire , desire , longing

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• Rudolf Eisler , Dictionary of Philosophical Terms, 1904
• Friedrich Kirchner , Dictionary of Basic Philosophical Terms, 1907
• Socrates , XENOPHONE, memor. I, 6, 10
• Xenophon , Symp. 4, 34 ff.