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The Ruling Faculty

The Stoics' 'command center' of the soul — the part that thinks, judges, and gives the yes-or-no behind every action.

Hegemonikon ('the ruling part') is the Stoic name (early Stoa, 3rd c. BCE; Chrysippus its great theorist) for the soul's central governing faculty, which they located in the heart. From it radiate the senses, speech, and impulse; into it impressions arrive, and there reason grants or withholds its assent. Because it is the seat of judgment, Stoic ethics — keeping the hegemonikon in a rational, virtuous state — is essentially the discipline of this one faculty, a theme that runs through Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.

How it traveled

Discourses
Nicopolis · 108
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The Handbook
Nicopolis · 135
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Fragments
Nicopolis · 135
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Ad Se Ipsum
Vindobona (Vienna) · 170
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Adversus Mathematicos
Alexandria · 190
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Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes
Alexandria · 210
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Vitae philosophorum
— · 240
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Enneades
Rome · 270
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Duties of the Heart
Zaragoza (Saragossa) · 1080
Reshit Chokhmah
Tzfat · 1575
Tanya
Liadi · 1797
Likutei Moharan
Breslov (Ukraine) · 1802
Maor VaShemesh
Krakow (Cracow) · 1817
Likutei Halakhot
Breslov (Ukraine) · 1840
Malbim on Proverbs
Bucharest · 1860
Malbim on Psalms
Bucharest · 1860
Fragmenta Logica et Physica
Athens
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Fragmenta Moralia
Athens
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De placitis Hippocratis et Platonis
Rome
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Legum Allegoriarum Libri I-III
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Placita Philosophorum
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De Somniis (lib. i-ii)
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Epistulae
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Stromata
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Praeparatio Evangelica
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De Specialibus Legibus (lib. i‑iv)
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De Sacrificiis Abelis Et Caini
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Selecta in Psalmos [Dub.]
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De Fuga Et Inventione
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Contra Celsum
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Scholia in Iliadem
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De locis affectis
Rome
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Testimonia et Fragmenta
Athens
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Commentarii In Evangelium Joannis
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De anima
Athens
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Philocalia
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Protrepticus
Apamea
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De symptomatum causis
Rome
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Fragments & Testimonia · Chrysippus