Showing posts with label thumos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thumos. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

OK, let the Protestants do it since Catholics don't have the thumos


 

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Donald Trump is Marco Rubio's Thumos personified

 


... he grows worse from having power: he becomes and is of necessity more jealous, more faithless, more unjust, more friendless, more impious, than he was at first; he is the purveyor and cherisher of every sort of vice, and the consequence is that he is supremely miserable, and that he makes everybody else as miserable as himself. ...

-- Plato, Republic IX 

You can spot the place where Marco was interrupted by the game on TV while he was writing his little speech because in his thumos he left an incomplete sentence behind

 Ah, the thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat: