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37. Robin Waterfield on Epictetus

Philosophy as a Way of Life

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Do You Choose to Do, You Choose Will?

Prahiruses has been translated from everything from free will to faculty of choice. The word comes from a Greek root that means choosing. For the stoics, choosing is something our reason does, our soul does. According to Epictetus, it's the faculty that makes use of impressions.

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