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Philosophical concept

Moral choice

For Epictetus, prohairesis is the faculty of choice to which other things are subordinate; he describes it as free and unenslaved.

Works
46
Passages
317
Thinkers
19
Traditions
8

Understand uses of the concept

For Epictetus, prohairesis is the faculty of choice to which other things are subordinate; he describes it as free and unenslaved.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 317 passages across 46 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics, Metaphysics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: prohairesis, faculty of choice, faculté de choisir, faculte de choisir, ce qui dépend de nous, up to us, προαιρε

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  2. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  3. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  8. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  9. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  10. Philosophies for Sale, Sections 7-11, by Lucian of SamosataLucian of Samosata · 0 passages
  11. Pseudo-Diogenic EpistlesPseudo-Diogenes · 0 passages
  12. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  13. Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  14. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 95 passages
  15. Enchiridion of EpictetusEpictetus · 53 passages
  16. Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  17. MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 0 passages
  18. The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
  19. LawsPlato · 0 passages
  20. ParmenidesPlato · 0 passages
  21. PhaedrusPlato · 0 passages
  22. RepublicPlato · 0 passages
  23. SophistPlato · 0 passages
  24. StatesmanPlato · 0 passages
  25. Theages, a Dialogue of Disputed AttributionPlato · 0 passages
  26. TimaeusPlato · 0 passages
  27. Cato the YoungerPlutarch · 0 passages
  28. How a Young Man Should Study PoetryPlutarch · 0 passages
  29. How to Profit by One’s EnemiesPlutarch · 0 passages
  30. On Moral VirtuePlutarch · 0 passages