greed
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
covetousness · dishonest gain · incorrigibly greedy · sharah
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The vice of excessive appetite for bodily pleasure.
greed (sharah) and torpor (jumūd), which are the two extremes of temperance;
Economics
Excessive desire for gain, especially dishonest gain from the master's property.
And if I find any attempting to persist in dishonesty, although they are well treated, I regard them as incorrigibly greedy, and have nothing more to do with them.
For I think, Socrates, that the difference between ambition and greed consists in this, that for the sake of praise and honour the ambitious are willing to work properly, to take risks and refrain from dishonest gain.
The object of these enactments was clearly to make covetousness unprofitable to the offender.