Philosophical concept
Meddlesome curiosity
Meddlesome curiosity turns attention toward other people’s affairs and feeds judgment without responsibility; Plutarch counters it with a better-directed examination of one’s own conduct.
- Works
- 2
- Passages
- 18
- Thinkers
- 1
- Traditions
- 1
Understand uses of the concept
Meddlesome curiosity turns attention toward other people’s affairs and feeds judgment without responsibility; Plutarch counters it with a better-directed examination of one’s own conduct.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 18 passages across 2 works, including On Curiosity. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: curiosité indiscrète, meddlesome curiosity, over-busy inquisitiveness, being a busybody
Works where the concept is identified
- On CuriosityPlutarch · 16 passages