Primitive
Primitive is a simple living being.
Primitivus denotes in Latin : “the first of its kind” in the sense of a term for particular simplicity .
In a social context, primitive stands for a perceived lack of civilization or, in relation to a single person, for low intelligence . Depending on the situational context, it also serves as an expression of compassionate disdain or as an insulting swear word.
The term primitive is used less often in biology for original , primitive and old in the sense of neutral in value .
Synonyms
Similar to primitive people , z. B. Banause , Stoffel , Vandals , generally uneducated people are used. In the French language , béotien ( German: Boeotian) has the meaning of "cultural bane, primitive, uneducated person" to this day.
Usage examples
- The people in the Balkans are by no means primitive people of idiosyncratic character , Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 6, 1995.
- It would be a mistake to assume that the hundreds of thousands who rushed to see their bodies dangling were barbarians and primitive people , Die Zeit , December 14, 1990.
- If that was primitive, I wanted to be that primitive too! , Der Tagesspiegel June 22, 2002.
- Brutal primitives from the dark European Middle Ages wade up to the stirrups of cultured Arabs educated in the blood , Die Zeit, May 17, 2013.
- These are tiny living beings, primitive people, not even capable of sin , picture , August 11, 2004
According to Ekkart Zimmermann, Samuel P. Huntington is said to have written in Political Order in Changing Societies : Marx was a political primitive. He was unable to develop a political science or a political theory because he had no understanding of politics as an autonomous field of action and had no idea of a political order that went beyond that of a social class . Lenin, however, elevated a political institution, the party , above social classes and social forces. Lt. Zimmermann is said to have explained this to Huntington in his book on p. 336.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden editorial team: primitive. Bibliographisches Institut , Berlin 2013, accessed on September 19, 2013: "[...] originally [...] very simple, plain, simple [...] (derogatory) a low intellectual, cultural level [...]".
- ↑ See e.g. E.g .: Thrills in the Cretaceous Period , Spiegel, January 26, 1998.
- ↑ Derived from Boiotia , landscape in south-eastern Central Greece , in which the Greek tribe of the Boioter (Βοιωτοί, Boiotier) settled. In ancient Greece (especially among the Athenians ) "Boeotian" meant roughly rural, uneducated . With this word meaning "Boeotian" entered the upscale German language of the 18th and 19th centuries. See e.g. As the figure of demented Hans Styx in Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers , who in his couplet Quand j'étais roi de Béotie ... (dt. Most When I was Prince was of Viotia ... ) his past as " King mourns of Viotia" or with Lion Feuchtwanger , who lets the character Paul Hessreiter speak of the “Boeotization” of Munich in his novel Success .
- ↑ Quoted from: Digital dictionary of the German language .
- ↑ Fredy Gsteiger, A loyal servant of his master Iraq Foreign Minister Tarek Asis: mouthpiece and ear of Saddam Hussein , Die Zeit , December 14, 1990, No. 51, [1] .
- ↑ Quoted from: Digital dictionary of the German language .
- ↑ Hellmuth Vensky, Were the Crusades self-defense ? Crusaders are considered fanatical barbarians. Image is reversed, which writes US - sociologist Rodney Stark in a book. His bold thesis: Islam provoked , Die Zeit, May 17, 2013, no. 20 [2] .
- ↑ Quoted from: Digital dictionary of the German language .
- ^ Samuel P. Huntington , Political Order in Changing Societies , New Haven 1968, Yale University Press, p. 336.
- ↑ Ekkart Zimmermann, Crises, coups d'états and revolutions, Opladen 1981, Westdeutscher Verlag, ISBN 978-3-531-11487-3 , p. 301, fn. 8 Google Books . Likewise in Steffen Kailitz (ed.), Key Works of Political Science, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-14005-6 , p. 188, Google Books .