Akrasia in the Stoic Sense

In Stoic practice: the failure of prosoche in which the hegemonikon yields to a false judgment (doxa hamartanē) instead of rejecting it, despite intellectual understanding.

While classical akrasia ("weakness of will") means knowing the good yet still doing evil, the Stoics understand it as an acute deficit of prosoche: a moment in which inner watchful awareness collapses, the false phantasma (impression) goes unexamined, and synkatathesis (assent) occurs automatically. This is not moral failure in the sense of genuine ignorance, but a temporary collapse of attention — aprosexia at the moment of action.