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While epithumia love can draw couples closer together, the danger is an uncontrolled desire to possess or own which can ultimately damage the relationship.
Leslie Davenport: The Health Benefits of Love: A Meditation for Deepening Connections Leslie Davenport 2012
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While epithumia love can draw couples closer together, the danger is an uncontrolled desire to possess or own which can ultimately damage the relationship.
Leslie Davenport: The Health Benefits of Love: A Meditation for Deepening Connections Leslie Davenport 2012
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Corresponding to the three gunas of sattva, rajas, tamas, Plato spoke of three categories logistikon, thumos, epithumia and he used a three-part classification for society.
Indic Ideas in the Graeco-Roman World Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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Corresponding to the three gunas of sattva, rajas, tamas, Plato spoke of three categories logistikon, thumos, epithumia and he used a three-part classification for society.
Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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What do you say of edone (pleasure), lupe (pain), epithumia (desire), and the like, Socrates?
The CRATYLUS Plato 1975
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In the Republic (Book IV) soul loses its unity and becomes divided into nous (“intellect”), thumos (“passion”), and epithumia (“appetite”).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968
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* Ou gar ti ekineito par 'auto, ou thumos, ouk epithumia allou paren auto, anabebekoti; all' ou de logos, ou de tis noesis; ou d 'holos autos, ei dei kai touto legein; all' hosper harpastheis e enthousiasas hesuche en eremo katastasei gegenetai atremei, te autou ousia oudamou apoklinon, oude peri auton strephomenos, hestos pante kai hoion stasis genomenos;: [4949] 1
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Aristotle has, I venture to think, rather quibbled here, by using [Greek: epithumia] and its verb, equivocally as there is no following his argument without condescending to the same device, I have used our word lust in its ancient signification Ps. xxiv.
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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In the Republic (Book IV) soul loses its unity and becomes divided into nous (“intellect”), thumos (“passion”), and epithumia (“appetite”).
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The epithet mikra, as applied to the epithumia of the Elder, is inappropriate, and suggests an error of translation.
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