# Comparative character

- Id: `comparative_character`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/comparative-character/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `98c4396fcc76d52c5ad220a0ed21496f685f231aa4a865643efdffaeb8a5c65c`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:plutarch.table_talk:9.6.1",
    "passage:plutarch.progress_in_virtue:9",
    "passage:plutarch.profit_from_enemies:9"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "comparaison des caractères",
    "comparative character",
    "compare the characters",
    "comparer les caractères"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 11,
    "passages": 1368,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "plutarch.alexander",
        "title": "Alexander",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/alexander/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.caesar",
        "title": "Caesar",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/caesar/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.cato_younger",
        "title": "Cato the Younger",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/cato-younger/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.progress_in_virtue",
        "title": "How One May Know One’s Progress in Virtue",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/progress-in-virtue/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.how_young_man_should_study_poetry",
        "title": "How a Young Man Should Study Poetry",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/how-young-man-should-study-poetry/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.profit_from_enemies",
        "title": "How to Profit by One’s Enemies",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/profit-from-enemies/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.on_curiosity",
        "title": "On Curiosity",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/on-curiosity/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.control_of_anger",
        "title": "On the Control of Anger",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/control-of-anger/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.e_at_delphi",
        "title": "On the E at Delphi",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/e-at-delphi/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.face_in_moon",
        "title": "On the Face in the Moon",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/face-in-moon/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.table_talk",
        "title": "Table Talk",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/table-talk/"
    }
]
```