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Philosophical concept

Comparative character

Comparative character observes how dispositions become visible in similar choices under different fortunes, without reducing a life to one anecdote.

Works
11
Passages
1,368
Thinkers
1
Traditions
1

Understand uses of the concept

Comparative character observes how dispositions become visible in similar choices under different fortunes, without reducing a life to one anecdote.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,368 passages across 11 works, including Alexander, Caesar, Cato the Younger. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: comparaison des caractères, comparative character, compare the characters, comparer les caractères

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. AlexanderPlutarch · 377 passages
  2. CaesarPlutarch · 288 passages
  3. Cato the YoungerPlutarch · 318 passages
  4. How One May Know One’s Progress in VirtuePlutarch · 17 passages
  5. How a Young Man Should Study PoetryPlutarch · 14 passages
  6. How to Profit by One’s EnemiesPlutarch · 11 passages
  7. On CuriosityPlutarch · 16 passages
  8. On the Control of AngerPlutarch · 16 passages
  9. On the E at DelphiPlutarch · 21 passages
  10. On the Face in the MoonPlutarch · 30 passages
  11. Table TalkPlutarch · 260 passages