"Ignorance - what is it, how to recognize it?" - Ask those who are unlikely to suffer from it. And cultural and educated people are never sorry to tell and explain something that interests them.
Value
An ignorant person can be called in two cases:
- When he does not possess information, for example, he thinks that the Earth is still flat and stands on three pillars, and those, in turn, rest on a turtle.
- When he behaves uncultured in the everyday sense. Rude, shouts and interrupts the interlocutor.
Moreover, the second meaning of the word "ignorance" is considered colloquial, and the first, therefore, the main.
Negligent schoolboy as a victim of ignorance
A person may be the master of his ignorance, or may be his slave. A slave is a loser who does not even know about ignorance - what it is. He lives as if in a dream, obeying his selfish desires and vain, momentary pleasures. The intellectual horizon is narrow. He does not know anything and does not want to know anything. This is a terrible type of person in a psychological sense. On the other hand, he should not be feared socially, because he will not take part in the historical process, for he is made by an enlightened minority.
Sherlock Holmes as an example of conscious ignorance
But at the same time, there is another example of attitude towards ignorance - this is Sherlock Holmes. The detective deliberately avoids unnecessary information so as not to clog his brain. In the wonderful Soviet film adaptation of 1979, the detective amazes his friend and colleague, Dr. Watson, with a sparkling concept of consciously chosen ignorance. Holmes insists that he does not need literature, history, philosophy, or other sciences that do not directly interfere with his work, and therefore with his interests. Hearing this, Watson for some time can not find the words. And then he concludes that the world was extremely sad if everyone thought like Holmes. Therefore, if the reader is asked: "And ignorance - what kind of concept is this?" He can safely give an example of Holmes.
True, I would like to argue with Watson and say that if everyone was like Holmes, the world would not be sad, it would be wonderful. And all because the great detective is a man keen and keen on, and if there were a lot of such people in the world, then humanity would only win.
About the relativity and absoluteness of ignorance
When we answer the question of ignorance - what is it, then after the main part we can go deeper into subtleties. For example, it is now known: the concept of “ignorance” has two meanings - intellectual ignorance and domestic denseness. Moreover, the first is not as scary as the second. And why? Because when a person does not know something, he can easily be forgiven, because this is his personal business. But when he behaves defiantly, in a boorish manner - this is already a problem for those around him. Debauchire restricts the freedom of another, prevents him from living both physically and aesthetically. The latter is worth explaining. Remember your feelings when you see a person who uses a sleeve instead of a scarf. You see, yes?
Therefore, ignorance is a category both relative and absolute at the same time. On the one hand, it is relative, because each of us is ignorant of something, but a certain proportion of conformity to the moral canon is necessary for existence among people, and any social institutions operate only in a specific social space. Simply put, each monastery has its own charter. Each society in a particular historical period of time has its own rules and laws.
So, we have examined the concept of "ignorance." The meaning of the word is explained with available examples. The semantic content of the phenomenon of ignorance even made it possible to draw philosophical conclusions.