Concept
Thumos
Overview
Thumos, also spelled thymos (Ancient Greek: θυμός), is the Ancient Greek concept of 'spiritedness' (as in "a spirited stallion" or "spirited debate"). The word indicates a physical association with breath or blood and is also used to express the human desire for recognition. It is not a somatic feeling, as nausea and dizziness are.
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Lupe appears to be derived from the relaxation (luein) which the body feels when in sorrow; ania (trouble) is the hindrance of motion (alpha and ienai); algedon (distress), if I am not mistaken, is a foreign word, which is derived from aleinos (grievous); odune (grief) is called from the putting on (endusis) sorrow; in achthedon (vexation) “the word too labours,” as any one may see; chara (joy) is the very…
Plato, Cratylus
States what Thumos is; the author is tied to Thumos in the knowledge graph.
>From sensations common to the whole body, we proceed to those of particular parts. The affections of the tongue appear to be caused by contraction and dilation, but they have more of roughness or smoothness than is found in other affections. Earthy particles, entering into the small veins of the tongue which reach to the heart, when they melt into and dry up the little veins are astringent if they are rough; or if…
Plato, Timaeus
States what Thumos is; the author is tied to Thumos in the knowledge graph.
Therefore in the common language of men, Aire, and Aeriall Substances, use not to be taken for Bodies, but (as often as men are sensible of their effects) are called Wind, or Breath, or (because the some are called in the Latine Spiritus) Spirits; as when they call that aeriall substance, which in the body of any living creature, gives it life and motion, Vitall and Animall Spirits. But for those Idols of the brain…
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
States what Thumos is.
Philosophers who discussed Thumos
Related ideas
- The End of History and the Last Man
- Francis Fukuyama
- Innatism
- Passion (emotion)
- Homer
- Republic (Plato)
- Desire
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Passions (philosophy)
- Plato
- Troy
- Nous
- Intellect
- Reason
- Psyche (psychology)
- Ancient Greece
- Eros (concept)
- Democritus
- Don Quixote
- Phaedrus (dialogue)
- Liberal democracy
Place in the tradition
Part of Reason.