Thumos

Thymos ( θυμός ancient Greek, thumos, "life force " ) is an expression of the emotional disposition of a human.

Thymos is a philosophical concept, introduced by Plato as one of the three basic human motivations. In ancient times, the ( mortal ) Thymos of the ( immortal ) Psyche (Psyche ) and the Nous ( νους ) was clearly distinguished. From the use of different words for parts of the human person and personality in the Homeric epics about Bruno Snell concluded that people would still obsessed in this era no self - consciousness in the sense of independent freedom of action and responsibility, but either from their Thymos or her Nous, in case of doubt but controlled seen by the gods. Snell's thesis was later further thought by ER Dodds and Christopher Gill.

The ancient medicine suspected the seat of the mind in the named later today thymus.

Megalothymia and Isothymia

Thymos is the emotional need of every person to be recognized by others. Megalothymia is the desire to be recognized by others as superior, while Isothymia'das need to others is to be recognized as equal.