{"id":1097,"date":"2018-05-12T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T08:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:43:55","slug":"hubris-and-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/2018\/05\/12\/hubris-and-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybris and Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A central claim of our ERC project is that ancient Greek \u2018honour\u2019 (tim\u00ea<\/em>) is a reflex of a complex of motivations and values that is still very much with us. A corollary of that claim is that ancient Greek concepts can still be used to make sense of modern phenomena. One example is that of hybris<\/em> <\/span>(or hubris<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the claim of the Daedalus Trust (http:\/\/www.daedalustrust.com<\/a>), founded by Lord (David) Owen and others, to disseminate awareness of what they call \u2018the hubris syndrome<\/span>\u2019 in modern society (especially among politicians).<\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the Trust\u2019s founders, Professor Nick Bouras<\/a> (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King\u2019s College London), has recently published this article<\/a>\u00a0on the prevalence of hybris (and the need for humility) among doctors and scientists<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Douglas Cairns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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