Character ethics was invented more than once. Athens, Rome, the Warring States, medieval Paris and Baghdad, and southern Africa all arrived at the idea that ethics is about what kind of person you become — and then disagreed productively about how. Click two traditions on the map, compare them dimension by dimension, and put both to work on the same case.
The map
Click a point to make it Tradition A; the previous A slides into Tradition B. The two pale points inside Confucianism are Mengzi and Xunzi, who split on exactly the vertical axis.