[lit-ideas] Re: On Understanding Nietzsche and Fukuyama (Part 2)
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:53:39 -0500
Why the hell were you noodling around in search of the origins of thymos???
Thermos, I can understand, but thymos? Get a grip.
Mike Geary
in Memphism not in Toot Baldon either
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> While noodling around in search of the origins of thymos in Ancient Greek
> thought, I discovered the very useful online Dictionary of the History of
> Ideas, at the University of Virginia library.
>
>
> http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=DicHist/uvaGenText/tei/DicHist4.xml;brand=default
> ;
>
> Thymos is under 'psychological ideas in Antiquity.' The entry is economical
> yet complete as far as providing the history of and changes in this and
> other concepts (e.g. psyché) goes. I read through several other entries in
> the Dictionary; they were each written by people who know their subjects and
> can talk about them in plain words.
>
> Robert Paul,
> not in Toot Baldon
>
>
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