In the era of Antiquity the most highly spiritual nationwere the Greeks. This is evidenced by numerous monuments of literature and art. Foreigners, who understood nothing in philosophy, poetry and drama, were called barbarians by the Greeks. This word was formed as a result of the sound imitation of the incomprehensible speech of foreigners. Barbarism is a concept that is used today. What does it mean?
Barbarians
Таким определением эллины наделили иностранцев.The barbarians spoke in an unknown tongue and did not honor cultural values. But this word is not of ancient Greek origin. This concept is firmly established in modern European languages from Latin. The fact is that the Romans were originally called by the Greeks as barbarians. But later the Latins achieved a lot in culture and science. Then, like the inhabitants of the conquered state, they began to endow strangers with this scornful nickname.
Barbarism is a phenomenon that has been writtenphilosophers, ethnographers, historians and sociologists. In a scientific sense, the concept has several meanings. In everyday speech, barbarism is a tendency to destruction, ignorant attitude to historical and cultural monuments.
This concept has several semantic shades.An extreme form that barbarism can have? - this is vandalism. In criminal practice, this term refers to the desecration, damage to buildings and monuments.
Examples
According to the artist Nikolai Akimov, barbarians -these are people whose characteristic properties are aspiration, an irrepressible desire to destroy something that surpasses their understanding. Examples of ignorant attitude to spiritual values are the massive destruction of churches and monasteries in Soviet Russia.
Жозеф Делил полагал, что варварством можно to name not only the destruction of paintings and other achievements of art, but also the desire to enjoy them alone. According to the French astronomer, some collectors can also be called a word that Herodotus used so often in his work in relation to the neighboring wild nations.
Jean Jaures called the revolution a barbaric form of progress.
The ancient Greeks believed that only foreigners could be ignorant. Historian Konstantin Kushner noted that barbarians are present in every nation.
In poetry
Musa Jalil - Tatar poet, anti-fascist. His work is permeated with a thirst for freedom, a call to fight dictatorship and violence. One of the most striking of his creations is "Barbarism."
Муса создал ряд произведений на антифашистскую topic. Later, after the death of the poet, they were combined into a collection. The poem "Barbarism" - the most penetrating of them. Here this concept implies not damage to cultural property, but cruelty, inhuman desire to destroy all living things.
