The Taint of Hubris: Rediscovering Humility and Bridging Authentic Connection - Hardcover

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Hubris connotes overbearing arrogance, blindness to reality, grandiosity so severe that it is “an affront to the Gods,” in Bennet’s words. The most useful aspect of this book is Alex’s scholarly frameworks that cut through the confusion. She locates hubris along a continuum from extreme hubris at one end to humility at the other. Even more, she notes the precise types of behavior along this continuum along with symbolic examples – the Greek God Icarus who flew too close to the sun, and even technology breakthroughs like AI … overblown with dire predictions of omniscient machines destroying humanity.
To resolve the existential threats of our time – climate change, autocracy, conflict, AI – we will have to cultivate what Alex calls the “sweet spot” in the middle of the Humility-Hubris continuum. That place where neither arrogance nor vacuousness destroy our ability to act as knowledgeable, self-confident agents, calmly going about our tasks with awareness and resilience, and listening carefully to contrary views. Out of all the madness that surrounds us, the future of humanity hinges on nothing less than shaping the raw material of consciousness into modern human beings who live beyond the fading “economic man” driven by self-interest, money and power.
-William E. Hallal (Excerpted from Foreword)

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