Hubris and Progress

Release on 2019-03-14 | by Carlo Bordoni

L. Gallino, Il denaro, il debito pubblico e la doppia crisi spiegati ai nostri nipoti, Einaudi, 2015, p. 8. Cf. A. Touraine, La Fin des Sociétés, Seuil, 2013, Nous, Sujets Humains, Seuil, 2015. U. Beck, World at Risk (2007), trans.

Hubris and Progress
  • Author: Carlo Bordoni
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9780429775451
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 198
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Hubris and Progress

This book explores the ancient question of why man seeks to go beyond his limits. A presumptuous tendency known by the ancient Greeks as hubris and believed to be punished by the gods, it developed from a need for our survival to a habit, as humanity has subdued animals, dominated nature, increased knowledge and sought even to overcome death. It also lies behind the crisis of our time, as the values of democracy, freedom, equality and progress have been weakened – sacrificed to excess, as we live in an eternal present, dominated by greed and indifference regarding the future. Addressing this crisis of our interregnum period, in which faith has been lost in the former certainties of modernity, such as science, progress and the idea of a better world, the author considers whether redemption for humanity might lie in our hubristic tendencies, as these give us scope to deviate from the existing path and find new ways forward.

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