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... Nemesis was the inevitable punishment for attempts to be a hero rather than a human being . Like most abstract Greek nouns , Nemesis took the shape of a divinity . She represented nature's response to hubris : to the individual's ...
... Nemesis was the inevitable punishment for attempts to be a hero rather than a human being . Like most abstract Greek nouns , Nemesis took the shape of a divinity . She represented nature's response to hubris : to the individual's ...
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... Nemesis , the envy of the gods . Industrialized Nemesis Prometheus was hero , not Everyman . Driven by radical greed ( pleonexia ) , he trespassed beyond the limits of man ( aitia and mesotes ) and in unbounded presumption ( hubris ) ...
... Nemesis , the envy of the gods . Industrialized Nemesis Prometheus was hero , not Everyman . Driven by radical greed ( pleonexia ) , he trespassed beyond the limits of man ( aitia and mesotes ) and in unbounded presumption ( hubris ) ...
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... Nemesis for the masses is now the inescapable backlash of industrial progress . Modern nemesis is the material monster born from the overarching industrial dream . It has spread as far and as wide as universal schooling , mass ...
... Nemesis for the masses is now the inescapable backlash of industrial progress . Modern nemesis is the material monster born from the overarching industrial dream . It has spread as far and as wide as universal schooling , mass ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
Copyright | |
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