The Importance of the Impression in Stoic Epistemology

We often remain trapped in this stimulus response cycle from which it's difficult to break free. Chrysippus likened our moral character to a ylinder or a top. If my current character is prone to anger when provoked, that is how i am going to respond to an impression that i judge to be harmful to me. Unless we change that character, we're going to continue to respond that way to that same type of external impression and event.