# Character and motive

- Id: `character_and_motive`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/character-and-motive/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `548d731f1a6cd22525067acf90ada6bbd2b2f7085a0cad76494ab94b649b0e1d`

## Summary

Character and motive distinguish, for Schopenhauer, an individual’s stable disposition from the representation that prompts a given act; their combination supports his deterministic account of conduct.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 141 passages across 3 works, including texts still being qualified. 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:schopenhauer.freedom_of_will:chapter-05.segment-04",
    "passage:schopenhauer.basis_of_morality:section-22",
    "passage:schopenhauer.aphorisms_life_wisdom:kapitel-vi-vom-unterschiede-der-lebensalter.segment-09"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "caractère et motif",
    "character and motive"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 3,
    "passages": 141,
    "thinkers": 0,
    "traditions": 0
}
```