Gnoseología y determinismo en la estoa antigua: ¿en qué sentido el sabio es capaz de controlar sus asentimientos?

Abstract

The present paper proposes to notice the cognitive process’ moment in which the sage’s ability to control his assents would become apparent; this objective presents some difficulties given the context of a radical determinism that characterizes Stoic thought. Therefore, and with the aim of solving such problems, we will conjugate the existence of a determinations’ chain (which constitutes fate) with the possibility that a man has a faculty which ‘might be in his power’.