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As the classical imagination rightly observed, we all have a tendency to privilege the contents of the ego in service to our security (this they called hybris) and a tendency to view the world through the colored lens granted us by fate (this they called the hamartia) and end by deceiving ourselves.— California Literary Review
Thus the idea of a tragic hero was born - a hero who makes a mistake unknowingly and brings about his own downfall due to a tragic flaw or hamartia.— Recently Uploaded Slideshows
But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it.— Top Stories - Google News
In the meantime it is enough to remark that considerable vagueness of idea and looseness of expression exist concerning this subject While some regard sin simply as a defect or shortcoming, a missing of the mark, as the Greek word hamartia implies, others treat it as a disease_, or infirmity of the flesh--a malady affecting the physical constitution which may be {29} incurred by heredity or induced by environment.— Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
The violation of archic law is [Greek: hamartia] (error), [Greek: ponêria] (failure), or [Greek: plêmmeleia] (discord).— The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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