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about the Judeo-Christian story.
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They had a concept called hybris,
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to be translated as something among these terms,
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excess, arrogance,violence.I think the fullest grasp of it,
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I think, might be rendered best by violent arrogance.
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Some notion of being above yourself and thinking yourself
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more than a man with the implication that you are approaching
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some kind of divinity by being more than a man,
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and acting accordingly,which usually requires
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that you use violence to achieve what you want.
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The sort of the standard picture in Greek ethics runs this way.
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A man is granted too much,he is too well off,