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Pleonexia, sometimes called pleonexy, originating from the Greek πλεονεξια, is a philosophical concept which roughly corresponds to greed, covetousness, or avarice, and is strictly defined as "the insatiable desire to have what rightfully belongs to others", suggesting what Ritenbaugh describes as "ruthless self-seeking and an arrogant assumption that others and things exist for one's own benefit". == Classical Greek concepts of pleonexia == Classical Greek philosophers such as Plato related pleonexia to justice. Thrasymachus, in Book I of ''The Republic'', presents pleonexia as a natural state, upon which justice is an unnatural restraint.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Important terms: pleonexia )〕 In discussing the philosophy of Aristotle, who insisted in his ''Nicomachean Ethics'' that all specifically unjust actions are motivated by pleonexia, Kraut〔, cited by 〕 discusses pleonexia and equates it to epichairekakia, the Greek version of schadenfreude, stating that inherent in pleonexia is the appeal of acting unjustly at the expense of others. Young,〔, also cited by Keyt〕 however argues that the simple involvement of unfairness in the desire for gaining ever more is what defines pleonexia, rather than that the desire itself be for gaining ever more in a manner that is specifically unfair. Thomas Hobbes includes it as a concept of natural law in ''Leviathan'': If in this case, at the making of Peace, men require for themselves, that which they would not have to be granted to others, they do contrary to the precedent law, that commandeth the acknowledgement of naturall equalitie, and therefore also against the law of Nature. The observers of this law, are those we call Modest, and the breakers Arrogant Men. The Greeks call the violation of this law ''πλεονεξια''; that is, a desire of more than their share.〔Hobbes, Thomas: ''Leviathan'': Chapter XV. Of Other Lawes of Nature〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pleonexia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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