Character

Character is the indivisible, individual distinctiveness of a person or self, which is exhibited in certain modes of individual experience and experiencing. It is specific to an individual and distinguishes him from other individuals. The modes of experience are organized as wholes and subject to change, but they persist in essence. In this sense, character is the form of a person, and a stage in the formation or development of his personality.

Thus character may be considered as comprising the fundamental character, which remains more-or-less constant; and empirical character which is dependent on age, education, environment, and so on, and which may be said to be the creation and means of self expression of the fundamental character. Other opinions consider that character is developed entirely through education, in other words, simply a product of the society in which a person lives; or that it is a "predisposition" of the emotions, instincts and impulses, lying between natural dispositions and ethical values.

The development or education of character may be looked on as assisting an individual to learn moral and spiritual values, character building, or as a political act of inculcating those characteristics demanded by a particular society.