Archive for the 'character' Category

right action

December 9th, 2009

one of richard mckeon’s article, character, the arts, and education, helped me in my attempt to clarify what we really mean by right action, or rational action, in a very precise way. i want to quote from him: An action is right if it is well adapted to the circumstances, resources, needs, and purposes of [...]

character versus personality

November 25th, 2009

the word personality is sometimes treated as interchangeable with character, although its connotations are often very different. Anthony Quinton has suggested that we tend to speak of personality when our concern is how a person presents her/him self to the world. one might be tempted to contrast character to personality as the inner to the [...]