-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-04-18 11:30:57 EDT, you write:
>What does HYBRIS mean
Hybris or hubris (it's an English loan-word transliterated from Greek, where
"u" becomes "y" in some cases, as in "hygiene") means "over-confidence" or
"vanity exceeding all bounds," ending in disastrous consequences for the
person. It's the primary term to describe the "hero" in Greek drama, where
an otherwise admirable protagonist comes to a tragic end (sometimes
attributed to the "envy" of the gods) because of this "fatal flaw."
That isn't far from "bad karma" as understood by the Greeks' ultimate
ancestors, the Aryans of India, in Arjuna's case in the Mahabharata, for
example. But nowadays we
attribute less to the "gods" and more to psychology -- it's "pride cometh
before a fall."
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