PEDIATRICS Vol. 77 No. 2 February 1986, pp. 251-256
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Academic Hubris

ABRAHAM B. BERGMAN MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine and Harborview Medical Center, Seattle

Envy and pique and vanity, all the passions of self-regard. You could not live long in a society of men and not see them weigh down the rest.

—C.P. Snow in The Masters

I have always liked the word hubris ever since I heard it on my first day of college from a humanities professor as he talked about the ongoing feuds between Sparta and Athens. Professor Arragon of Reed College defined hubris as "stiff-necked." Webster's New World Dictionary1 defines it as "wanton insolence or arrogance resulting from excessive pride." Lewis Thomas2 writes that hubris first turned up in popular English use as a light piece of university slang at Oxford in the late 19th century, with the meaning of intellectual arrogance and insolence.


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