What's Your Account of the Soul?
On Fukuyama and Thymos
Francis Fukuyama writes in Identity that most modern economic theories typically have a dichotomous view of the soul—there’s desire (short term thinking; marshmallow now) and reason (long-term, calculative thinking; more marshmallows later).
Plato, by contrast, had a tripartite account. The soul is constituted not just by instinct and reason, but also b…
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