thoughts occur to us

The fatalistic overcorrection of the dichotomy of control. — I wrote part of the body of this post as a comment in another thread, but I see these comments very often anyway so I thought (voluntarily) that I would give a general objection to them here. The g…

Where there is "control", there is a) something doing the controlling, and b) something which is being controlled. What are these two things exactly? In ancient Stoic thought, there is one thing, ou…

I think for the most part you're right but you explain it really poorly when you say that "thoughts occur to us". What is passively received is impressions. Impressions happen to you, not thoughts. Th…