The Unobserved Mind

The noumenal mind that does not monitor itself and is therefore overrun by the unconscious drift of judgments.

A central problem in Stoic anthropology: the mind (nous/hegemonikon) is capable of observing itself, yet many people abandon it to automatic reactions (propatheia) and reflexive judgments (doxa). The 'unobserved mind' is not weak-willed but inattentive—it does not practice the continuous proskhēnē, the inner watchfulness.