The Stoa | The Politics of Thumos: Spirited Motivation of the Human Soul w/ Josh Wilburn @thestoa | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
August 23rd, 2022
Josh Wilburn, author of The Political Soul: Plato on Thumos, Spirited Motivation, and the City, visits The Stoa to discuss the politics of thumos. From the book:
"This book examines the relationship between Plato's views on psychology and his political philosophy, focusing on his reflections on the spirited part of the tripartite soul, or thumos, and spirited motivation over the course of his career. Spirit is the distinctively social or political part of the human soul for Plato, in the sense that it is the source of the desires, emotions, and sensitivities that make it possible for people to form relationships with one another, interact politically, and cooperate together in and protect their communities. Such emotions prominently include not only the aggressive or competitive qualities for which thumos is well known, but also the feelings of attachment, love, friendship, and civic fellowship that bind families and communities together and make cities possible in the first place.”
amazon.com/Political-Soul-Thumos-Spirited-Motivation/dp/0198861869
More from Josh: https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/fl2534
Learn more about the Thumos Bootcamp here: thestoa.substack.com/p/beyond-self-discipline-thumos-bootcamp
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patreon.com/the_stoa
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August 23rd, 2022
Josh Wilburn, author of The Political Soul: Plato on Thumos, Spirited Motivation, and the City, visits The Stoa to discuss the politics of thumos. From the book:
"This book examines the relationship between Plato's views on psychology and his political philosophy, focusing on his reflections on the spirited part of the tripartite soul, or thumos, and spirited motivation over the course of his career. Spirit is the distinctively social or political part of the human soul for Plato, in the sense that it is the source of the desires, emotions, and sensitivities that make it possible for people to form relationships with one another, interact politically, and cooperate together in and protect their communities. Such emotions prominently include not only the aggressive or competitive qualities for which thumos is well known, but also the feelings of attachment, love, friendship, and civic fellowship that bind families and communities together and make cities possible in the first place.”
amazon.com/Political-Soul-Thumos-Spirited-Motivation/dp/0198861869
More from Josh: https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/fl2534
Learn more about the Thumos Bootcamp here: thestoa.substack.com/p/beyond-self-discipline-thumos-bootcamp
thestoa.ca
patreon.com/the_stoa
thestoa.substack.com
