# Meddlesome curiosity

- Id: `curiosity`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/meddlesome-curiosity/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `403583677494a0473d7c52f5e8075f3ec43302d0fdaa94daf68d088722bb4c22`

## Summary

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.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:schopenhauer.basis_of_morality:section-17",
    "passage:schopenhauer.basis_of_morality:section-14"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "curiosité indiscrète",
    "meddlesome curiosity",
    "over-busy inquisitiveness",
    "being a busybody"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 18,
    "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.on_curiosity",
        "title": "On Curiosity",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/on-curiosity/"
    }
]
```