Etymology of the word
“Intelligence” is a word that comes from Latin. Intelligentsia is a cognitive power, the ability of perception, which, in turn, comes from the Latin intellectus - understanding, thinking. Despite the Latin origin of the word, the concept of “intellectual” is considered originally Russian and in the vast majority of cases is used only in the territory of the former USSR and among Russian-speaking segments of the population.
The father of the term “intelligentsia” is considered to be the Russian liberalist writer Pyotr Bobrykin (1836-1921), who repeatedly used it in his critical articles, essays and novels. Initially, this was the name given to people of mental work: writers, artists and teachers, engineers and doctors. In those days there were very few such professions and people were grouped according to common interests.
What professions can be classified as intelligentsia?
An intellectual is a representative of a profession associated with mental work (engineer, doctor, scientist, artist, writer), and a person with mental integrity.
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Who is an intelligent person?
“Cultural and not swearing,” many will say. Some will add: “Smart.” And then they’ll add something about being educated and well-read. But are all doctors of science and great minds of this world intellectuals?
There are enough people in the world with a huge amount of knowledge, who have read thousands of books, polyglots and true masters of their craft. Does this automatically make them part of the intelligentsia, the social stratum?
How parasitic words clog up speech
Their harmfulness lies not only in the fact that the use of these meaningless particles of speech makes it sound ridiculous. They can also affect your credibility and thus distract the listener’s attention. But you can definitely get rid of those annoying speech habits. You can start by simply being aware of them. This is something that you can do right now, since it does not require time or material costs.
The most common filler words
- Here
- as if
- type
- All in all
- Briefly speaking
- Well
- basically
- after all
- so to speak
- uh
- exactly this
- let's say
- For example
- Crap
- I guess
- understand
- You know
- Listen
The simplest definition of intelligence
One of the greatest minds of the Silver Age gave a very short but succinct definition of the concept of intelligence: “This is the highest culture of the human spirit, aimed at preserving the dignity of one’s neighbor.”
Such intelligence is that daily work is constant self-improvement, the result of a huge educational process on oneself, one’s personality, which first of all cultivates in a person the ability to be attentive and empathetic towards another living being. An intellectual, even if he commits a dishonest act under the will of circumstances, will suffer greatly from this and be tormented by remorse. He will rather do harm to himself, but will not be tainted by base things.
Universal human values inherent in an intellectual
According to the results of a social survey, the majority of people indicated the importance of education and good manners. But the great Faina Ranevskaya said: “It is better to be known as a good, but swearing, than a well-mannered bastard.” Therefore, higher education and knowledge of etiquette do not mean that you are an old-school intellectual. The following factors are more important:
- Compassion for the pain of others, no matter whether it is a person or an animal.
- Patriotism, expressed in actions, and not in shouting from the podium at rallies.
- Respect for other people's property: therefore, a true intellectual always pays debts, but takes them out extremely rarely, in the most critical cases.
- Politeness, compliance and gentleness of character are mandatory - they are the first calling card of the intelligentsia. Tactfulness is at the top of their attitude towards people: he will never put another person in an uncomfortable position.
- The ability to forgive.
- Absence of rudeness towards anyone: even if an impudent person pushes an intellectual, he will be the first to apologize for the inconvenience caused. Just don’t confuse this with cowardice: a coward is afraid, but an intellectual respects all people, no matter what they are.
- Lack of intrusiveness: out of respect for strangers, they are more likely to remain silent than to be frank with just anyone.
- Sincerity and unwillingness to lie: again, out of decency and love for the people around you, but more out of respect for yourself.
- An intellectual respects himself so much that he will not allow himself to be uneducated, unenlightened.
- A craving for beauty: a hole in the floor or a book thrown into the dirt excites their soul more than the lack of dinner.
From all this it becomes obvious that education and intelligence are not related concepts, although they interact. An intellectual is a rather complexly structured personality, which is why he is never loved by the lower strata of society: against the backdrop of an esthete who has a keen sense of the world, they feel flawed and do not understand anything, which is why anger manifests itself, leading to violence.
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I suddenly understood how to distinguish a real intellectual from a redneck like me. We rednecks can be as well-read and smart as we like, and they, intellectuals, can be as uneducated and stupid as we like - but we cannot be confused, we differ at the very first identification codes. We rednecks may even be oppositionists, and they, intellectuals, may even be loyalists - but we disagree at the very first decimal places.
The whole point is that we, the cattle, and they, the intellectuals, have completely different Russian language structures. We use completely different vocabularies of concepts for the main areas of life.
A real intellectual, when writing about the Motherland, always writes about food and everyday life. Whatever he writes about, he always composes his thoughts from cutlets, pasta, makeup, buttons in the elevator, sweaty armpits, stomach gases, headsets, carpets on the wall, heart-rending neighbors’ dogs, and how he was pushed on the tram. He always remembers when and where they ate, what they wore and what they used to furnish them with. He remembers this even when he writes about art. His texts about some domestic creator are always texts about how he, an intellectual, snuck into the creator’s concert/film/exhibition and tore his tights.
And when he begins to write about something heavenly, not here, then crude materialism leaves the intellectual, and even if he writes about someone’s horrors, stench and armpits, all his grumpiness immediately disappears somewhere. Everything turns into a High Syllable. And he poetically puts forward something like “in Pasolini, the inner world is exteriorized, emanates outward, jerkily revealing the content.”
I accidentally found such an intellectual just now. Here he writes about the heavenly: “The great mythological nothingness of Fassbinder always contains a human nothingness - the simplest animal individual. His heroes, who were born after the end, were born with an inescapable sense of collapse. They are half-bastards, bastards, half-humans. Not knowing either love or understanding, they are unable to live meaningfully and die meaningfully, with feeling. Not only do they have no history, they have no biography. They are phantoms. But participation in another, greater phantom makes them great.”
But after a couple of paragraphs about the Motherland: “But the police state blocks any minorities, this very concept; Instead of half-bastards, bastards and half-humans, there are always nomenclature heroes in the assortment - real men, modest and mournful, and Varvara, a beautiful braid in a darned blouse, with spirituality in her gaze. There was no criminal people who became a phantom people, there were heroes who performed permanent feats. Sometimes there were victims among them, and they grunted and farted until they agreed.”
Feel the difference. How everything immediately materialized. A false braid, a darned blouse, grunting and farting. This is your intellectual, Motherland. This is how he sees you, hears you, smells you.
The same chubzik, by the way, has three further posts about tights and why shoes were not removed in intelligent houses - “Soviet people were deprived of privacy, and intellectuals did not force each other to wear collectivist slippers.”
...And we, rednecks, describe the world as if it were one, common to all people. For us, wallpaper is just wallpaper, and cutlets are just cutlets in Samara and Berlin alike. And director I. Bergman is for us the same living storyteller as S. Bondarchuk - we do not turn the first into an astral entity, we do not mentally dress the second in slippers, special rations and a Volga with curtains. We are outrageously tolerant of food and everyday life; they do not stop us from admiring Vrubel, Gauguin and the sunset. For us, the state of the restrooms in Versailles and Peterhof is one thing, but Poussin and Kuindzhi are another.
Because of this, we always forget where to whine and where to soar. A redneck can write an article about Kozintsev’s “Hamlet” without ever mentioning pearl barley and permanent, but an intellectual cannot. But an intellectual, when he watches some palm-bearing porn like “The Life of Adele,” sees there entirely Violations of Taboos, Passion and Texture, and not like cattle - dyed lesbians constantly eating something and copulating for a long time.
Modern intellectual
What is intelligence today? Is it even possible to be like this in the arena of total degradation and dullness from the media, social networks and television shows?
All this is true, but universal human values do not change from era to era: at any time, tolerance and respect for others, compassion and the ability to put oneself in the place of another are important. Honor, inner freedom and depth of soul, together with a keen mind and a thirst for beauty, have always been and will be of paramount importance for evolution. And today's intellectuals are not much different from their brothers in the spirit of the century before last, when man - this really sounded proud. They are modest, honest with themselves and others, and are always kind from the heart, and not for the sake of PR. On the contrary, a spiritually developed person will never boast of his actions, achievements and actions, but at the same time he will try to do everything possible to become at least a little better, knowing that by changing himself, he changes the entire world around him for the better.
Do modern society need intellectuals?
Education and intelligence are now as important an aspect as global warming or cruelty to animals. The thirst for money and universal adoration has so captured society that modest attempts by individuals to raise the level of human awareness resemble the painful efforts of a woman giving birth, who, despite all the pain, sacredly believes in a successful outcome.
It is necessary to believe that intelligence is such a culture of the soul. This is not the amount of knowledge, but actions in accordance with moral principles. Perhaps then our world, mired in the mud of a distorted mind, will be saved. Humanity needs bright-hearted individuals, intellectuals of the spirit, who will promote the purity of relationships without mercantile motives, the importance of spiritual growth and the need for knowledge as the initial basis for subsequent development.
Meaning of the word intelligent
Examples of the use of the word intelligent in literature.
There is another line in the novel - it bears clear traces of autobiography and tells about a family drama, about the history of an extraordinary intelligent family caught in a tragic rift in time, as well as about the unusual circumstances of the birth of the main character, who was born behind barbed wire in one of Stalin’s camps .
General Alekseev had already gained a reputation as a thinking, intelligent officer, and he looked attractive in appearance - a fit, tall man with the broad shoulders of a lumberjack.
She looked brilliant and wild - like in the pre-dawn dream of an intelligent drunkard, according to Kornev's definition: aluminum arcs of electrodes converging into perspective sparkled in the light of the spotlights like cones, glass bowls of high-voltage insulators stretched between them like garlands, ceramic spacer beams lined up in polygonal shapes, gray sides had a matte shine balloon cylinders, the tension of the nylon cables around the cabin fanned out the leveling plates.
But director Roman Balayan interpreted the events in his own way and deeply, turning them into a spiritual drama of an intelligent and charming man, whose role was played by my favorite actor Oleg Yankovsky.
The wide intelligent audience that Chekhov already had at that time was forced by the benefit prices to postpone enjoyment until the next performances.
Because our Berdichev is a link for an intelligent person!
And his small apartment, and his home with Lika - this faithful friend, caring wife and charming woman, whom after seven years he loves even more and is more in love with her than before, and who, it seemed, also feels happiness even more strongly closeness and a faithful and loving friend - the whole situation, all the habits, in a word - everything, everything seemed to him so necessary, dear and close, obtained after the vagabond life of intelligent people not provided with a proper income, that it seemed to Valery Nikolaevich a pointless meanness on his part to deprive his family of comforts .
And Burbulis, posing as an insightful psychologist, an intelligent philosopher, did not even realize that at that moment he had pronounced a final verdict on himself.
All the military men I have encountered - and, as the reader may guess, there are many of them - are highly educated, deeply intelligent people.
Martyn’s relatives turned out to be nice, intelligent people - art critic Armen Gasparyan and his wife Anusha.
Something like a flickering shadow passed over his face, and when he opened his eyes again, the image of Leland Gaunt, who had fooled so many of the people of Castle Rock, returned - the charming, intelligent, civilized Mr. Gaunt.
I even felt ashamed that I had been shaking my tail for so many days, and, to put it intelligently, was cowardly.
Why are two intelligent, respected women - Ksenia Fedorovna worked as a senior bibliographer of one large academic library, and Lena was engaged in translations of English technical texts and, as they said, was an excellent translator, even participated in the compilation of some special textbook on translation - why are two good women who passionately loved Dmitriev, also a good man, and his daughter Natasha, stubbornly cherished the mutual hostility that had hardened over the years?
A beautiful and intelligent woman, she took custody of Żeromski’s works, which were not accepted by the magazine, and introduced Żeromski to Prus, with whom she had long been friends.
These were intelligent people who did not really know how to adapt to the difficult circumstances of that time, and therefore they lived crampedly and insecurely, especially since feeding and even feeding the young red-cheeked scoundrel, who was supposedly prone to tuberculosis and rolled around like cheese in butter, was the main all-round care.
Source: Maxim Moshkov library
When does the formation of moral qualities occur?
In order to be, or rather, to feel like an intellectual and not be burdened by this burden, it is necessary to absorb the inclinations with mother’s milk, to be brought up in the appropriate environment and environment, then highly moral behavior will be like a part of the being, like a hand or an eye.
It is for this reason that it is important not only to raise a child in the right direction, but also to set a clear example with rational actions, correct actions, and not just words.
