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in public life, in the public space.
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It is clearly connected this notion of spiritedness
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or this thumotic quality
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to our capacities for heroism
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and for self sacrifice.
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But it is also connected to our desires for domination
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and the desire to exercise tyranny over others.
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Thumos has a kind of dual component to it.
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It can lead us to a sense of kind of righteous indignation and anger
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at the sight of injustice,
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but it can also lead us in a rather contradictory way
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to desire to dominate and tyrannize over others.