Hubris, Nemesis and Greek Mythology

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What is Hubris? For the Ancient Greeks, Hubris was a particularly pernicious character trait - an excessive arrogance and pride that would always lead to nemesis - the fall. Icarus and Phaeton both succumbed to hubris, and the trial of Meidias after he punched Demosthenes in the theatre of Dionysus provides with a compelling story about how the Athenians thought about democracy.
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MacDowell, Douglas M. "'Hybris' in Athens." Greece & Rome 23, no. 1 (1976): 14-31. www.jstor.org/stable/642912.
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@ThenNow 5 лет назад

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@RooseveltAliWashingtonX 5 лет назад

" A man's descent into hubris leads him to madness... Hubris may be summed up as delusions of grandeur that can lead to madness." Well said!

@jamespotts8197 4 года назад

This is an amazingly thoughtful, detailed description of the origin of Hubris. A beautifully prosaic essay that entails many important aspects of how acts of such a manner has an ability of disruption to self, as well others.

@coreyanderson7424 Год назад

This sounds crazy but I heard a voice saying, I am Nemesis. I'm crazy. I never heard of her until I looked it up. I heard it at a friend's house. Several times. So now I am trying to learn as much as possible. How strange. I like the old vintage clips btw. Very cool.

@libatonvhs 5 лет назад

Great vid, as always!

@blueoak116 10 месяцев назад

Excellent. Well researched, well written.

@juliemelville65 3 месяца назад

You never let us down Lewis. A top class summary of these concepts❤

@aaronkitchens5945 4 года назад

Thank you. Well explained.

@VirtueInsightWebPage 5 лет назад

So; could one infer that social media (or mass media in general) encourages Hubris? Somehow all of this reminds me of the 7 deadly sins, for which there are 7 lively virtues to combat them. However it does seem contemporary media is objectively not well suited to promote ideas of temperance & humility; rather it seems our gigantic gluttonous media (mostly) encourages our inclinations towards nefarious behaviors such as Hubris be it personal, political, or both. Is our contemporary Western culture designed, or at least in large-part geared financially, socially & technologically towards Nemesis? To me at least, it would seem undeniably so.

@MayV93 5 лет назад

Not sure the medium itself is responsible for hubris, which seems to me more a part of the flawed human nature of those who use it. But it certainly does allow for hubris with potentially unlimited permissiveness, as in the case of major political figures who misuse social media and thus expose their own culpability in hubris. I certainly see how the publicity of the self-expression through social media makes apparent the speaker's error and thus invites the work of Nemesis as a counterbalancing force.

@KevinJohnson-cv2no 5 лет назад

Feel free to go live in the woods if society is too hubristic for you

@FairyPodcaster 10 месяцев назад

Your reading is so beautiful the volume of the music needs to be reduced. It’s nice but lower.. 🙏

@unanimus7676 5 лет назад

the "Greek" words used in this video to write hubris and nemesis have nothing to do with Greek (ὕβρις και νέμεσις) how do people come up with stuff like that?

@DetectiveWorkStudios 4 года назад

Because it looks like the Latin alphabet. Like writing Russia with the backwards R of cyrillic

@liammalone6304 2 года назад

Your ignorance to your own hubris is humorous 👌

@billyshane3804 Год назад

Lecherous Hubris!! Who would have ever thought!!

@harukasuzuhara8491 2 месяца назад

6:26 Denying the Divinity of Nemesis in a video on Hubris… interesting choice.

@6kourte650 5 лет назад

Fun fact: there is a god called Helephost that is said to be the god of reincarnation and is said that he painted the milky way galaxy (he is also said to be one of the reincarnated son of nox idk something like that :/)

@MatrixMaster777 3 года назад

Congratulation! You Have 33 Comments As At 2020-08-18^^

@allmendoubt4784 4 года назад

Understanding hubris starts with the Iliad. Nemesis with the Oresteia. Studying the classic cycle of myth is time saved on countless dirges of modern know how rags. It also prepares a soul to watch out for Petersons.

@double-eagle-dave 3 месяца назад

I was wondering what hubris meant in 300 when the spartans pushed the wall over he said hubris there easy to trick easy to taunt

@howard33072 4 месяца назад

Who is the psychologist Wilfred/ Wilford Owens??

@notproductiveproductions3504 3 года назад

And yet we don’t have a word from someone else’s language for the opposite extreme issue

@yaruqadishi8326 3 года назад

10-9th Century BCE Iliad so came to us.

@alexlisa790 5 лет назад

Does meritocracy fuel the impulse of hubris? I would argue so. That everyone is overambitious of their abilities, and seeks to have a higher rank, a higher position in society, more money and more power. And yet we still live in an authoritarian society, whether in America, Britain, France, Germany or wherever in the "free" world. That these countries in North America, Europe, Oceania and possibly even Asia; sacrifice collective institutions and possibly even the harmony of society for these ideals of personal gain, profit, and cutthroat competitiveness. Not to mention governments willing to use whatever force necessary to keep this system in place, though often force is not necessary, since most people buy into the ideas of short term gain and have almost a sense of artificial hubris, that they seek to go as high as they can just because it's the ideal of society and for better pay. We have an entire civilization that prioritizes short term thinking over long term stability, of order and harmony in society. And when I say order, not cheap shit like having tougher laws on immigrants and banning recreational sex, I mean societal order, a sense of actual job stability, of having a definite role in the community. We don't need authoritarianism to have an orderly society, just the rule of law, similar to the Greek's interpretation of it. I don't know, think about it, agree, disagree, comment, whatever.

@alexlisa790 5 лет назад

Also, maybe unequal distribution of power itself leads to hubris?

@unanimus7676 5 лет назад

a guitar Hubris as I know it to be (I'm Greek and had a Greek education) was mostly the idea that someone thought themselves superior to the Gods, so in that sense he (it was usually a he i guess) was insulting the Gods (the idea works as well without religion) Hubris actually means insult. The person committing hubris was usually a person of authority, like a king or someone in power, who would overestimate his power and mess with the natural order of things. Hubris was thought to be caused by a lack of shame. When something was called hubristic it was called so because there was a lack of concern to what others thought of the action made by the person committing hubris (you can also say that it's caused by arrogance). There are other concepts connected to hubris and nemesis... Ύβρις-Άτη-Νέμεσις-Τίσις... Hubris makes the Gods punish someone with Ati which is the blurring of the mind which causes someone to commit Hubris again. Then comes Nemesis which is their punishment and Tisis which is their final destruction. Hubris was thought to be the biggest sin anyone could commit in Ancient Greece.

@alexlisa790 5 лет назад

Are you Greek from Greece or Greek emigre? I assume the former based on what you just said. How does Ancient Greece's version of hubris tie into modern Greek culture? Has there been an evolution of the concept of hubris in Greece?

@KevinJohnson-cv2no 5 лет назад

Meritocracy fuels strength. The best SHOULD be the ones given the responsibilities over their respective fields, it's only logical. The ideology you propose is one that exists only in the wet dreams of weaklings and those who are too inept to compete. Also, today's current socio-economic infrastructure is not an optimal meritocracy in the slightest. Your conclusion that meritocratic government is synonymous with authoritarianism is cave-man logic, and blatantly retarded. "A sense of actual job stability" That's your responsibility. Learn a high-income skill so you can provide more value, and hence secure a better position. Examples of high-income skills would be: Programming, Negotiation translations, Salesmanship etc. "A sense of having a definitive role in the community" Again, this is your responsibility. It's up to you to take action and impact your community as an individual, if you're just some loser who dwells and feels disconnected from your community then that's not societies problem, it's yours. "people buy into the ideas of short term gain and have almost a sense of artificial hubris, that they seek to go as high as they can just because it's the ideal of society" Lol I hate to break it to you bro, but there isn't any "ideas" that the people "buy into" lmao. This isn't some grand shrewd conspiracy of the capitalist scheme; constantly striving for more is human nature. Ambition is human nature. Although it does seem that for every ambitious man there are several weaklings content to sulk and complain about their lot in life, so I'm beginning to actually question if ambition *truly* is human nature. Point is; people striving for more, regardless of the system they live in, is to be expected. If you dislike it, get a group of losers together, go live in the woods and dedicate rewards to whoever sucks the most at life. Your society of celebrating failure over merit shall go very far, I presume.

@nahmaing8268 5 лет назад

@@KevinJohnson-cv2no you make some good points about meritocracy but dont kid yourself. Competition and struggle for supremacy has fueled millions of pointless deaths that should have taught us a lesson that we never learn: despite the "weaklings" you speak of, there is a pocket of redemption in someone's soul, always, no matter what. You make a good point that those with ambition should be rewarded, but history proves that those with ambition gain what they have through the direct and sometimes intentional deaths of others. Others that have or have not ambition. "Weaklings" or "the strong" as you call them it doesnt matter. War can be fairly indiscriminate and war is usually the result of a human soul corrupted by hubris.

@Sunshinepati 3 года назад

Et les conventions économiques sont elles-mêmes fondées sur les fonctionnements psychologiques/émotionnels (genre investissement / sur-investissement).... des humains ... donc des fonctionnements humains ...

@Lily-yk9qu 4 года назад

Is there someone else just here cause of writing a Latin exam about hybris and nemesis ¿

@torat1511 2 года назад

whom gods destroy they first drive insane

@Skylark_Jones Год назад

When you said "Wilfred Owen" you didn't mean David Owen..? He wrote a book on Hubris. He described Tony Blair as having hubris: yet these days millionaire Blair is wheeled out as the elder statesman whose advice and opinion is still courted by the mainstream media: no nemesis for him.

@DPoner 2 года назад

Only Torries are prone to hubris? Really?

@yaruqadishi8326 3 года назад

Their democracy didn't just last for 200 years it lasted for over 2000 years even prior to Socrates.

@acutelilmint8035 2 года назад

here that trudeau

@tyercuuhbitu2219 5 лет назад

Hubris is a spook. The broad definition is clue.

@alexlisa790 5 лет назад

How does hubris have a broad definition? Maybe the definition could be short at times, but at the very least native English speakers (and presumably Greek speakers too) have a specific cultural understanding of what hubris is, that it is overestimation of one's own abilities, the belief that one is superior to others in making decisions or that one should put their own personal goals above the goals of society. Which I guess it's not hard to see how you say it is a spook, for to be critical of hubris is to be critical of Stirnean ideas of placing the individual, of the self, as the supreme concern. That society is just a collection of individuals, a town hall. Is this your view, that you place the individual as the most moral concern? That you see societal constructs of social restraint as spooks?

@KM-sr8dd 3 года назад

Who’s here because of VDH?

@aeyacastanares1034 2 года назад

Hopefully all diplomats who are in peace talks now between Russia and Ukraine will do their best to weigh each sentiments inorder to keep world balance for each leader want only to make saddle each position.. And see the treaty made the second world war end..