autarkeia

Given powerful messages in consumer societies that happiness, security and self-worth lie in consumption; that we should buy whatever we desire; and that, because our desire for things is unlimited, we can in principle never attain “self-sufficiency” autarkeia, it is not hard to see how deep seated the problem of the love of money is in our society.

St. John Chrysostom and the Problem of Wealth 2008

Entelechies, for they have in them a certain perfection (echousi to enteles); they have a certain self-sufficiency (autarkeia) which makes them the sources of their internal activities and, so to speak, incorporeal automata.

The Monadology 2004

They relate it to frugality (euteleia), and independence (autarkeia), and divorce it entirely from the theoretical life.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

Here are many attributes of God to make good this one thing, that his work is perfect, -- this autarkeia, self-sufficiency, perfection, righteousness.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

His autarkeia, or self-sufficiency, will not allow that he should do any thing with an ultimate respect to any thing but himself.

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

Compare also what is said in the first Book of this treatise, chap. v., about [Greek: autarkeia].

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

It is easy for us to smile at what may well be the over-rhetorical phrases of Seneca when he speaks of the self-sufficingness ([Greek: autarkeia]) of the wise man, or when he says that the wise man is, but for his mortality, like God himself; and yet these rhetorical phrases are, after all, the forms of an apprehension which has changed and is changing the world.

Progress and History Francis Sydney Marvin 1903

Considering the general complexion of this universe, its inevitableness and apparent [Greek: autarkeia] may seem, in some moods and to some persons, a little oppressive; it is always, perhaps, as has been admitted, productive rather of admiration than of pleasure.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

St Athanasius loves to dilate on the [Greek: autarkeia], the self-sufficingness, of

To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work 1880

[Greek: autarkeia] est quae parvo contenta omne id respuit quod abundat

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839