Glossary
The Iliad's concern with why characters act, feel guilt, hate, love, and forgive.
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human psychology
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normative
Othello is best understood as a Greek tragedy about hubris, arrogance, fate, jealousy, and human vulnerability rather than as primarily a racial issue.
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The Iliad's second new feature is human psychology: it asks what motivates Achilles, Priam, and others to fight.
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"is it possible that in insurance in certain circumstances this can be used against him and that's the that's the plot of Othello which..."
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"get you get a lot of interesting psychology all right so let's imagine you become Hamlet and you become Othello and you were in..."
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"...second thing that is new and unique to the Iliad is human psychology. So for the first time, Homer discusses what motivates the characters..."
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"Okay? So Achilles is the greatest warrior of the Greeks. Priam is the king of the Trojans. And they hate each other. Okay? Because..."
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"...That's the Iliad. As you can imagine, this is extremely complicated psychology. And it forces you to think deeply about who we are as..."
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"Because it gives you complete insight into human psychology, and it's very real. Okay? Alright, let's keep, let's keep on going."
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"...sunk cost fallacy and again this is all using just basic human psychology to trick people into believing something that is not true doesn't..."
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"...travel, but at the same time, we have to look at human psychology and how miserable people are, and how hopeless and helpless people..."
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"...Or conspiracies or Illuminati or whatever, when just sort of normal human psychology would be enough to explain the the situation at hand of..."
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"...the greatness of Homer because he's telling us the complexity of human psychology. Odysseus is really, really smart. He thinks ahead, right? He should..."
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"...out is something really, really simple. All right? It's really simple human psychology. In human history, what was very common was for groups of..."
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"...call this the Stockholm Syndrome, all right? It's a very basic human psychology that is consistent throughout human history, throughout all societies. When a..."
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