Nora Grigore
Abstract. The term “thymos” has, famously, a multiplicity of aspects. It is used in Plato‟s texts and other ancient writings to mean something like “spirit” or “anger” or “vividness” or “animation”. Also famously, Plato uses it to designate a third part of the soul, the one concerned with courage and love of victory and honor. My aim is to offer an interpretation that a) would paint a coherent picture out of all of these different aspects, and b) would account for the theoretical role of the thymos in the Platonic framework.
Keywords: thymos, Plato, Plato‟s Republic, tripartition of soul