In the era of antiquity, the Greeks were the most highly spiritual nation. This is evidenced by numerous monuments of literature and art. Foreigners who did not understand anything in philosophy, poetry and dramaturgy, the Greeks called barbarians. This word was formed as a result of onomatopoeia of incomprehensible speech of strangers. Barbarism is a concept that is used today. What does it mean?
Barbarians
This definition of the Greeks endowed foreigners. The barbarians spoke in an unknown dialect and did not honor cultural values. But this word is not of ancient Greek origin. This concept is firmly rooted in modern European languages from Latin. The fact is that the Greeks also called the Romans originally barbarians. But later the Latins achieved a lot in both culture and science. After which, like the inhabitants of the conquered state, they began to endow the strangers with this contemptuous nickname.
Barbarism is a phenomenon that philosophers, ethnographers, historians and sociologists wrote about. In the scientific sense, the concept has several meanings. In everyday speech, barbarism is a tendency to destruction, an ignorant attitude towards historical and cultural monuments.
This concept has several semantic connotations. The extreme form that barbarism can have? - this is vandalism. In criminal practice, this term refers to desecration, damage to structures and monuments.
Examples
According to the artist Nikolai Akimov, barbarians are people whose characteristic properties are the desire, an unstoppable desire to destroy that which exceeds their understanding. Examples of ignorant attitude to spiritual values are the mass destruction of churches and monasteries in Soviet Russia.
Joseph Delil believed that barbarism can be called 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 neighboring wild peoples.
Jean Jaurès called the revolution a barbaric form of progress.
The ancient Greeks believed that only foreigners could be ignorant. The 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 his most striking creations is Barbarism.
Musa created a number of works on the anti-fascist theme. Later, after the death of the poet, they were combined into a collection. The poem "Barbarism" is the most soulful of them. Here, this concept does not imply spoiling of cultural values, but cruelty, inhuman desire to destroy all living things.