Literary notes about Temperament (AI summary)
Writers deploy “temperament” as a multifaceted term that captures both innate disposition and the nuanced interplay between emotion, intellect, and artistic expression. It is used to describe everything from a character’s inherent philosophical leanings or creative spirit to the very essence of one’s nature that shapes actions and reactions. For instance, authors have linked temperament to the core of intellectual life and artistic genius, suggesting that an individual’s inner character is inseparable from the way they engage with the world [1, 2]. In other works, it underscores the tension between a rigid natural disposition and the fluidity of learned behavior, thus offering a lens through which to view personal and societal transformation [3, 4].
- But the general triumph of that method would mean an enormous change in what I called in my last lecture the 'temperament' of philosophy.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - His was essentially a great temperament; his whole life was a life of ideas, an intellectual life.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer - Its temperament, if I may use the word temperament here, is utterly alien to the temperament of existence in the concrete.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - Adam's TEMPERAMENT was the first command the Deity ever issued to a human being on this planet.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
