Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Philosophy Wire: Ancient pills, modern hybris…

_65118378_pill-2Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-01-09]: Ancient pills found at a shipwreck. [source: BBC News] Our biggest problem is arrogance. Even though most things we do now have been invented thousands of years ago as we can also read here (yes, OK, except the Internet – even though φρυκτωρίες in ancient Greece were too similar to it…), we always think we have just found them. And that hybris (ὕβρις) will be our demise…
 
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