What is Choice?
We spend a lot of our lives making choices. We choose a flat white rather than a latte; we choose a career; we choose to learn, not judge; we choose to be happy – all different categories of our experience that admit of choices. Epictetus is right in the sense that the power of choice is within us and that we carry it with us. He uses the term “reasoned choice” because for him, reason is the primary basis for all decisions. But in practice our choices derive from many motives.