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The part of you that fights before checking if the fight is winnable.
means The quality of having vigorous energy, courage, and animated determination in how you act or respond.
from From 'spirited' plus '-ness,' with 'spirit' tracing back through Old French 'espirit' to Latin 'spiritus' — breath, or the breath of life. The Latin root comes from 'spirare,' to breathe. The old logic was simple: breath is what separates the living from the dead, so having a lot of 'spirit' meant having a lot of that animating force — liveliness, courage, fire. 'Spiritedness' just names what it feels like when someone's got plenty of that breath to spare.
- plato's term
- thymos, the soul's third part, between reason and appetite
- not anger
- anger is an event, spiritedness is the standing readiness for it
- horse analogy
- plato compared it to a noble horse needing reason as rider
- civic use
- cities need it too, or citizens never resist injustice