Character
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
character · الاخلاق · a state by which a man performs his acts · a trait of character · ethics · fine character · foul character · khulq · the excellences of character · الخلق
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Akhlāq, the cultivated dispositions that are the book's object, held to be alterable by power.
And do not gauge the matters between you and him by what you used to know of his character (akhlāq), for characters are transformed where power is.
And know that envy is a base trait of character (khulq), and part of its baseness is that it fastens upon the nearest and then the next nearest among one's equals, kin and associates.
on the particular branches of the excellences of character (akhlāq)
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The fixed state of the soul's affections, alterable by will and habituation, treated as the proper subject of ethics and as the starting point of the reported Aristotelian curriculum.
and it is the faculty by which we discriminate fine acts from foul, and by which each one is able to acquire for himself a fine character if it is not already there for him;
As for what is proper to man in his own essence, that is his book on ethics, a very great book of many benefits, which teaches how a man acquires an excellent endowment and a praiseworthy disposition from which fine acts and well-pleasing works issue.
As for the affections of the soul, one acquires it in ethics, in which we show how a man acquires fine character in everything that befalls him, until nothing befalls him but the comely, the fine and the praiseworthy, and that becomes his form and settled disposition in all matters;
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Moral character, defined as the settled state from which a man acts without deliberation, and traced either to inborn nature or to training and habit.
and your saying in characterising character (*khulq*), “it is a state by which a man performs his acts without deliberation and without choice” — and it is in some men an instinct and a nature, and in others the result of practice and training, or of familiarity and habit