hamartia

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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.

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  1. Greek, from hamartanein, to miss the mark, err.
 

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