Hubris : Hybris, Greek for overweening presumption suggesting impious disregard of the limits governing men’s actions in an orderly universe. In Greek tragedy it is usually the basic flaw of the tragic hero.
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... world have up to now ranked themselves as the highest kind of being, as the lords and leaders of creation, is branded by Tim Lewens as “hubris”, a Greek word meaning ‘excessive pride’. Lewens writes: “Darwin’s view also exposes, in the eyes of many, a kind of hubris that our species has been prone to. We are not distinct from nature, we do not ride above it, and neither are we evolution’s greatest work ...
... known as the founder of Western Metaphysics, one of the most articulate thinkers of the modem West, Heidegger (1889-1976) who spent his considerable philosophical powers exposing the civilisational hubris of Metaphysics and the historical consequences of its mental totalitarianism, points to Aristotle's teacher, Plato (427-347 B.C.) as more properly its initiator. Though Plato was not unfamiliar with ...
... there was but the soul's simplicity and spontaneity and self-forgetfulness. When extraordinary experiences pass through the mind or the life-force, there is always the danger of what the Greeks called hubris ( towering pride) or of what the French term "la folie de grandeur" (delusion of greatness). Our superficial being is on the alert to catch hold of all divine largesse and divert it to egoistic uses ...
... fixity. Yet the moral ideas of other ancient races,—Aryan races—seem to have been otherwise clear, concrete & definite. The Greeks knew well what they meant by Fate, Necessity,Ate, Themis, Dike, Koros,Hubris; we are in no danger of confusing morally Zeus with Ares, or Ares with Hephaistos, Aphrodite with Pallas or Pallas with Artemis! We will suppose, however, that the higher spiritual development of the ...
... to think of two things. There may be certain ideals we may set up for a human being. That is what the Greeks believed. They held that man should not go beyond a certain limit. There should not be hubris, overweening pride or ambition. And man must observe his own human measure. That by the way is the interpretation some Hellenists give of the two great aphorisms that have come to us from Greek times: ...
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