# Actor and role analogy

- Id: `role_actor_analogy`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/actor-and-role-analogy/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `9698c1bc1decc34e867d05306767f4445d5f74733cac5ae378f4de82d024e4f0`

## Summary

The actor analogy tests whether virtue can play either a high or humble social role well without drawing its worth from the role itself.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 55 passages across 1 works, including Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of Chios. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:aristo.testimonia_fragments:403",
    "passage:aristo.testimonia_fragments:399",
    "passage:aristo.testimonia_fragments:398"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 55,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "aristo.testimonia_fragments",
        "title": "Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of Chios",
        "author": "Aristo of Chios",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristo/testimonia-fragments/"
    }
]
```