My next two or three posts will be about thumotic living. Here's part one:
Thumotic living is living from our thumos, our spirit, that which makes us alive.
Since we experience our thumos in our chest, it is associated with our heart. Thumotic living is also living from our heart.
We can feel when we're living from our thumos. Sometimes we feel warmth in our chest, our heart. Sometimes the warmth blazes into a heated flame of passion. Whether it's warmth or flame it compels us to speak and act before we think.
Thumotic living is living not according to the dictates of a divine or human authority figure. It's not living according to a religion, philosophy, or moral code. It's not living according to reason, rationality, or logic. It's not concerned with conforming with current social mores.
Thumotic living is irrational. It's free-spirited living that manifests in our actions the life-affirming desires of our heart.
