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Often appears with: will, choice, and freedom · the passions and the emotions · praise and blame · mental training · justice as a virtue · good and evil in will
Usually: argument (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1)
“Where is the good? In the will. Where is the evil? In the will. Where is neither of them? In those things which are independent of the will.” Epictetus (translated by George Long), A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with th · insight
He teaches that good and evil lie in the will, and complains people do not meditate on practical judgments, so they remain anxious and inconsistent outside what they have trained.
sickly soul knows not which way to incline; but if to this inclination and movement there is added a tone (obstinate resolution), then the evil becomes past help and cure. THAT WE DO NOT STRIVE TO USE OUR OPINIONS ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL.—Where is the good? In the will. Where is the evil? In the will. Where is neither of them? In those things which are independent of the will. Well then? Does any one among us think of t…