{ "article_index": "P40", "catalog_id": "P40", "claims": [ { "article_sections": [ "I. A name, remembrance, and an actual trace", "X. A trace can continue without possession of the future" ], "attribution": "Editorial distinction; Marcus Aurelius IV.XXVIII (Casaubon) and Ecclesiastes 9:13–18.", "id": "C01", "source_ids": [ "B31-P40-S1", "B31-P40-S3" ], "text": "A name’s fame and an act’s actual usefulness are different considerations.", "type": "editorial interpretation" }, { "article_sections": [ "II. What is received needs room to be used", "V. An undertaking continues under new conditions" ], "attribution": "Editorial example; limited support Dewey I.1–2 on transmission and understanding.", "id": "C02", "source_ids": [ "B31-P40-S2" ], "text": "Surviving objects alone do not establish that a transmitted undertaking remains accessible.", "type": "editorial interpretation" }, { "article_sections": [ "III. A person remains in ways of treating others", "VII. A recipient need not become an extension of the giver" ], "attribution": "Editorial boundary; Dewey I.2 communication/consent and Marcus Aurelius I.III.", "id": "C03", "source_ids": [ "B31-P40-S1", "B31-P40-S2" ], "text": "Gratitude for what was received does not establish agreement with every purpose of its giver.", "type": "editorial interpretation" }, { "article_sections": [ "VI. Honest remembrance can hold a mixed account", "VIII. A good name cannot justify a harmful trace", "What this means in practice" ], "attribution": "Editorial consideration of a particular trace, no judgment of every creator’s biography.", "id": "C04", "source_ids": [ "B31-P40-S1", "B31-P40-S2", "B31-P40-S3" ], "text": "A good name does not cancel a harmful consequence available for correction.", "type": "editorial interpretation" } ], "description": "Distinguishing remembrance, fame, work, care, and everyday traces without claiming possession of another person’s future.", "headline": "Legacy: what remains of a person in other people’s lives", "language": "en", "master_sha256": "2db9cd2e42fbb791b0b1c30d7246d0299367f6cc28e3be3c1a5e80756eb54c14", "questions": [ { "a": "No universal scale is prescribed. Available particular participation can be examined; absence of a monument, children, learners, or property does not prove an empty life.", "article_sections": [ "IX. There is no duty to leave something great", "X. A trace can continue without possession of the future" ], "q": "Must I leave something great?", "source_ids": [ "B31-P40-S1", "B31-P40-S3" ] }, { "a": "Not automatically. Its substance, present conditions, and accepted commitments require consideration; fidelity is not measured by unchanged appearances alone.", "article_sections": [ "II. What is received needs room to be used", "V. An undertaking continues under new conditions", "VII. A recipient need not become an extension of the giver" ], "q": "Does changing an undertaking prove betrayal?", "source_ids": [ "B31-P40-S2" ] }, { "a": "Received help can be acknowledged without continuously maintaining the giver’s portrait. Actual promises are considered separately from unspoken expectations.", "article_sections": [ "I. A name, remembrance, and an actual trace", "IV. Care need not become a monument", "VII. A recipient need not become an extension of the giver" ], "q": "Must a recipient confirm the giver’s importance for life?", "source_ids": [ "B31-P40-S1", "B31-P40-S2" ] } ], "retrieval_limits": "Editorial examination of forms of legacy. No guarantee of permanence, beneficial influence, recognition, immortality, compulsory gratitude, or successful transmission; no legal or clinical instructions. Recipients retain agency, while actual promises and consequences remain specific. Traditions form no common doctrine.", "revision": 1, "schema_version": "uw.editorial_geo.v1", "short_answer": "Legacy can remain in possibilities and forms of participation available to others even when a name is not long remembered. What was transmitted differs from an expected response: recipients retain the right to understand, change, or refuse it while considering actual commitments and consequences.", "sources": [ { "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "checked_at": "2026-10-11", "edition": "Meditations, Meric Casaubon translation, text prepared by comparing 1634/1635 editions as the page's Notes explains; Project Gutenberg ebook 2680", "id": "B31-P40-S1", "limitations": "Self-addressed Stoic moral reflection; not psychological or historical evidence of universal transmission. Casaubon's paraphrastic translation and edition numbering are retained. Fatalism, class/cultural assumptions and surrounding medical/body claims not universalized. No direct displayed quote adopted from this work.", "locator": "First Book I–IV; Fourth Book XXVIII as divided in this edition; Notes opening", "provenance": "Fresh actual web chosen-scope reading2026-10-11 before original draft, precisely scoped in SOURCE_CONCEPT_GATE.json; no wholework reading claim.", "raw_source_import_allowed": false, "raw_source_vectorization_allowed": false, "read_scope": "Complete chosen First Book I–IV, lines136–143; Fourth Book XXVIII in this edition, lines326–329; full Notes opening1261–1265 establishes Casaubon/paraphrase/corrections/different divisions. Nearby introduction and surrounding passages displayed but not adopted as independent history evidence.", "rights_note": "Only exact short fragments attributed; no worldwide licence or raw source-ingestion permission.", "rights_status": "Historical work/edition; jurisdiction-specific rights retained", "source_type": "primary philosophical work in named historical English translation", "title": "Meditations, First Book I–IV and Fourth Book XXVIII (Casaubon divisions)", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2680/2680-h/2680-h.htm", "year": "Casaubon1634/1635 basis; current digital edition named" }, { "author": "John Dewey", "checked_at": "2026-10-11", "edition": "Democracy and Education, original English, Project Gutenberg ebook 852", "id": "B31-P40-S2", "limitations": "Philosophical educational argument, not contemporary efficacy research or universal developmental model. Historical civilizational hierarchy not adopted. No claim every interaction necessarily improves another's life. Exact key quotation: Consensus demands communication. Three whitespace words.", "locator": "Chapter I sections 1–2; key quotation I.2 at web line148", "provenance": "Fresh actual web chosen-scope reading2026-10-11 before original draft, precisely scoped in SOURCE_CONCEPT_GATE.json; no wholework reading claim.", "raw_source_import_allowed": false, "raw_source_vectorization_allowed": false, "read_scope": "Complete Chapter I sections 1 and2, lines123–156, with title/author page; section3 opening nearby context only. Both biological/social continuity analogy and communication including consent/orders contrast were actually read.", "rights_note": "Only exact short fragments attributed; no worldwide licence or raw source-ingestion permission.", "rights_status": "Historical work/edition; jurisdiction-specific rights retained", "source_type": "primary philosophical work in original English", "title": "Democracy and Education, Chapter I.1–2", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/852/852-h/852-h.htm", "year": "Original English; publication date not inferred from digital page" }, { "author": "Ecclesiastes / biblical wisdom text", "checked_at": "2026-10-11", "edition": "King James Version, Bible Gateway", "id": "B31-P40-S3", "limitations": "Religious wisdom story; no verified biography, automatic compensation or guarantee that goodness survives. Exact short epigraph9:15 fragment: yet no man remembered that same poor man. 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