Open AccessEPICTETUS: DIAIRESIS AND CONTRADIAIRESIS
Author(s) -
Franco Scalenghe
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
prometeus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2176-5960
pISSN - 1807-3042
DOI - 10.52052/issn.2176-5960.pro.v7i15.1951
Subject(s) - extant taxon , simplicity , philosophy , term (time) , history , epistemology , physics , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , biology
‘Diairesis’ and ‘Counterdiairesis’ are the names that the activity of our proairesis takes when it operates the distinction between what is proairetic and what is aproairetic. When this distinction is done in the right way, Epictetus says that our proairesis is ‘right’ and is using diairesis. When this distinction is not done, or is done in a way that is not the right one, Epictetus says that our proairesis is ‘wrong’ and is using counterdiairesis (this is a term that we don’t actually find in the extant works of Epictetus, but that he clearly suggests and that I have introduced for simplicity).