Cockiness
Cockiness (lat. Superbia ., Gr hybris ) means redensartlich a recklessness or wantonness - in contrast to depression or sluggishness. Its increase is the recklessness , its extreme form the hubris , which is therefore also punished by the gods in Greek mythology .
Historical usage
In the older German usage "arrogance" is also arrogant ( haughty ) arbitrariness . Also arrogance of the nobility , in Tieck's Hamlet translation the arrogance of the offices (see also his Puss in Boots ).
Hans Rosenplüt and the printer Hans Schobser (1500–1530) have already written about the künig in the bathroom who was deprived of his power through his arrogance and high affection for being tightened by got (Munich around 1501).
Exuberance in philosophy, religion and psychology
- Philosophically, arrogance is also seen as "a person's measured trust in their own strength" (Kirchner). Exuberance has been the subject of criticism, especially since the Greek tragedy poets. In Aias Sophocles shows the consequences of arrogance and ends his Antigone with the sentence: “We mostly need prudence in order to be happy. Therefore never sin in the divine law. Presumption atone for its boastful words with difficult judgment and then ultimately has to learn to be prudent in old age. «Therefore, especially in the Christian context, arrogance is seen as a vice , which humility is opposed as a virtue .
- It is not uncommon for the Greek mythological figure of Icarus and the biblical story of the Tower of Babel to be associated with arrogance.
saying
A well-known proverb says: cockiness is rarely good .
It is only given benevolently to children or foals .
Arrogance in art
- Paul Klee called one of his pictures Übermut .
- In music too, arrogance became a motive. B. in Joseph Haydn's song Against the arrogance .
literature
- Bernd Auerochs: Ludwig Tieck: "Puss in Boots". Exuberance and inner freedom . In: Dramas of the 19th Century . Reclam, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-15-009631-6 , ( Universal-Bibliothek Interpretationen 9631), pp. 15-38.
- Tobias H. Brocher: Between fear and arrogance. How to deal with yourself . Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-7831-0792-X .
- Wolfgang Kersten: Paul Klee, high spirits. Allegory of Artistic Existence . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-596-23959-1 , ( Fischer pocket books. Art piece 3959).
- Karin Lerch-Hirsig: Ways to Paul Klee's “Übermut” . In: Berner Kunstmitteilungen Nr. 319 (April / May 1999), ISSN 1010-559X , pp. 8-11.
- Hans Letsch : Icarus. Exuberance demands its price . Aargau Foundation for Freedom and Responsibility in Politics and Business, Aarau 2004.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ K. Schottenloher: The Munich book printer Hans Schobser 1500-1530. 1925.