thymos
Definitions
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- noun That area of the soul where feelings of pride, shame etc., are located.
Examples
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Without the sense of pride and the love of struggle that Fukuyama, following Plato, calls thymos, men-and there is always an implication that thymos is a specifically masculine virtue-cannot establish freedom or protect it:
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Plato famously divided the soul into three parts: reason, eros (desire) and thymos (the hunger for recognition).
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But Plato says that there's a third part of the soul which is thymos, which essentially is, in a way, a source of self-esteem, it's the valuing part of the soul.
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I mean, I think when you understand these great entrepreneurs or founders of big industrial empires -- what's going on is not simply -- as is commonly portrayed -- greedy people wanting more and more, I mean it really comes out of this part of the soul that's called thymos.
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In the onslaught is displayed the animal excitement, the battle rage, which St. Thomas calls the irascible passion: and of this St. Thomas says, what Aristotle says of thymos, that it is an agency to be used by the rational will within due limits.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Note
The word 'thymos' comes from a Greek word meaning 'soul; heart'.
