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Updated: May 7, 2025

By things in our power, the Stoics meant, things that we could do or acquire, if we willed: by things not in our power, they meant, things that we could not do or acquire if we willed. In both cases, the volition was assumed as a fact: the question, what determined it or whether it was non-determined, i.e. self-determining was not raised in the abovementioned antithesis.

Alexander Bain - Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics