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Valery Kourinsky
Theme 12 : Social group and leader in selflearning
I. Specifics of a small group formation and existence.
1. The role of interest for specific activities in a social group formation.
2. Segmental involvements of an individual into different social groups.
3. The essence of hedonistic activities in a group, their cultural values and evolution of relations
among its members:
a) a sensory social group (feelings and thinking are an obstacle, common sense is an instrument
for gaining primitive sensory delights, etc.):
- relations in sensory groups become routine;
- slackening of contacts and loss of interest for another personality;
- selfishness and its progressing in a sensory group;
- increase of quarrelability and decay of a sensory group;
- the leader of a sensory group (priorities to the external; authority of physical abilities,
strength; ordinary members of the group develop phobias;
b) a spiritual and creative social group:
- development of ethical hedonism;
- the role of intellectual interest and skills;
- collectivity and integration of individuals;
- progressing sense of a like-minded adherent obtained;
- the development of relations and the spiritual model in common;
- the formation of a leader (Goethe) and sense of equality;
- marginal social groups and sense of reliable elite;
- strengthening of ties in a group, spiritual grounds for promoting the leader of a spiritual and
creative social group;
c) a mixed group:
- doom to superficial relations;
- resistance to deep analysis; secularism;
- secular thinking, snobbism;
- sense of offence and injustice, fear of the group's dissipation and compromises;
- meekness of the group members, mutual exploitation;
- hypocrisy in assessments (insincerity);
- sense of being worthless;
- degeneration of friendship into good neighborly acquaintance;
- the priorities of the external.
II. The autodidact and social group.
1. Singling out from the former group, alienation of interests.
2. Sense of unjust accusations and certainty of one's own superiority over the former level and
former co-inhabitants.
3. Propaganda and organizing activities of the autodidact (satisfaction, growing authority, etc.)
4. Quality of perception as a ground in inevitable debates (truth; originality, essence instead of
hackneyed and false banalities).
5. Awareness of the gap as the means of stress release.
6. Difficulties of the transition:
a) psychic suspension and transition:
- search for the foothold in the actual sense of moving ahead;
- accusation of and resistance to the routine welfare footing;
b) clarification of the "philistine" concept and personal development:
- persistence as the ground for an effort to move on; satisfaction with the persistence
manifested;
- durable efforts and analytism - the points of applying persistence;
- embroadening of the interest (culturological interests);
- search for information - moving from external brightness to inner keenness, to
understanding phenomena of life;
- perfection of self-analysis technique;
- the philistine as a closed system;
- Nietzshe, the state, authorities, the suppression apparatus, dissipation of individual thinking.
III. Goals of selfstudying and breakthrough to human dignity.
1. Stiffness of opinion as a criterion of philistinism.
2. It is impossible to have an opinion without being well-informed.
3. An obedient philistine and a philistine-leader:
a) heterogeneity of philistinism;
b) a philistine and a talent ( a gifted person), it is impossible to embrace the essence of the
moment or a piece of art (the case of the composer O. Messian).* * *
| The trembling soul is our instrument, we tame the cries, transform them into tunes and thus, we save ourselves — the dews of temporary feelings that are spent almost all. But ... but we believe and stand and stay and struggle for the little “fews” of past already “wholes”. Eternal Jews are multiplied in our dreams that all end with us. Ain't we, like deathless creatures move our images as if the movements prove the crazy statement: that can further dure, that has the quality to be again and your deep Self wait for the future gain like for a wisdom sake — mad epicure?.. |
Regards,
Valery Kourinsky
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