The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 191 of 254
Character varies with situation
The central truth is not that character is a myth, but that it varies more according to situation than we tend to assume. This means that, even if we take the findings at face value, a credible notion of character remains. Consider, for instance, a person’s tendency to be generous or mean. The Doris critique says you can’t just say that a person is mean or generous. The best you can do is to consider all the different kinds of situations a person would be in and ask if they would be mean or generous in each case.