# Moral choice

- Id: `prohairesis`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/moral-choice/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `7bcf92078c7d4574376b633ca6457d5b9535d709878ed40cd3ea16039d9ca7fa`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:epictetus.discourses:2.10"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "prohairesis",
    "faculty of choice",
    "faculté de choisir",
    "faculte de choisir",
    "ce qui dépend de nous",
    "up to us",
    "προαιρε"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 46,
    "passages": 317,
    "thinkers": 19,
    "traditions": 8
}
```

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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/christianity/"
    }
]
```

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    {
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```