Syneidēsis Diaphora

The awareness of an inner contradiction between a recognized value and one's actual conduct.

Epictetus emphasizes in the Discourses that a person who wills the good yet does the bad does not suffer from weakness of will in the ordinary sense, but from an inner contradiction (syneidēsis diaphora) between their conscious convictions and their operative judgements. This contradiction is not a mechanical failure but a confusion of the faculty of judgement (prohairesis) that splits the self.