Lexicon — viasophia

Acédie · ἀκηδία (akèdia) — Christian mystique · French Spiritual torpor and disgust that seizes the monk in the middle of the day, which monastic tradition calls "the noonday demon" after Psalm 90/91. Evagrius of Pontus ranks it among the eight evil thoughts and describes it as the heaviest: neither sensuality nor vainglory, but a revulsion toward the present hour and the place where one is. The Greek word *akèdia* literally means "absence of care," the inability to concern oneself with what should matter. Its surest sign is not rest but restlessness: disgust for the cell drives one to leave it.
Ahiṃsā · a-hiṃsā (pali identique) — Buddhism · Sanskrit Non-harm: to refrain from wounding and killing all that lives. The word joins the privative *a-* to *hiṃsā*, “the act of harming.” In the *Dhammapada*, this restraint does not stem from a received law—it arises from recognizing that every being trembles before violence and cherishes its life, as I do. An active restraint grounded in shared fear, not mere passivity.

Social acceleration — Western philosophy · French In Hartmut Rosa’s work, social acceleration isn’t the individual feeling of running out of time, but the structural logic of modern societies. A modern society only holds together by constantly increasing: it requires endless economic growth, technical acceleration, and cultural innovation just to maintain its balance. These three engines feed off one another in a loop, eventually dictating the pace of life—until the subject is severed from any living relationship with the world.