Felicità tra erotica e timotica

In the formation of individual happiness factors related to the thymos also contribute powerfully, and in his absence, personal unhappiness may occur. In Homer’s works, thumos was used to denote emotions, desire, or an internal urge. Our post-modern culture neglected their decisive role. We should consider instead a self based not only on erotic passions, such as the ability to love, to feel compassion and pity for others, and empathy, so relevant for today's cognitive studies, but a self supported by self-esteem, personal pride, by the desire to be recognized. Exactly, those thymotic passions silenced nowadays.