Philosophical concept
Character and motive
Character and motive distinguish, for Schopenhauer, an individual’s stable disposition from the representation that prompts a given act; their combination supports his deterministic account of conduct.
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Character and motive distinguish, for Schopenhauer, an individual’s stable disposition from the representation that prompts a given act; their combination supports his deterministic account of conduct.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 141 passages across 3 works, including texts still being qualified. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: caractère et motif, character and motive