# Inquiry through self-portrait

- Id: `self_portrait_inquiry`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/inquiry-through-self-portrait/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `677c2cc152d1541e7785670cd59ba96d9f97dbb3b4cdb83bd012cd7a01c95a57`

## Summary

Inquiry through self-portrait takes a changing life as material for examination, not to impose a model but to test contradictions among rule, body, and conduct.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 106 passages across 1 works, including The Essays. 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:montaigne.essais:3.9",
    "passage:montaigne.essais:3.8",
    "passage:montaigne.essais:3.7"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "je suis moi-même la matière de mon livre",
    "I am myself the matter of my book",
    "me peins tout entier",
    "paint myself entire"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 106,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

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

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "montaigne.essais",
        "title": "The Essays",
        "author": "Michel de Montaigne",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/montaigne/essais/"
    }
]
```