Honor is a difficult word to understand, but, nevertheless, everyone represents something of their own when hearing it. Honor is true and imaginary, they are both different from each other, but, nevertheless, often many people are mistaken with their definition when they meet in life.
True honor comes from the human soul, it is moral. This person understands for himself that by doing some good deed he will receive nothing for him, his only reward is inner satisfaction. Such a person does not lose anything, unlike another person whose honor is imaginary. You can give a simple example from life: there are a lot of people on the bus and a young guy is sitting, and his grandmother is standing next to him, this guy does not even think about getting up, pretending not to notice his grandmother. Only after this guy saw the sidelong glances of others, he stood up and invited his grandmother to sit down. This young man has an imaginary honor, since he is not a highly moral person, if they had not looked at him, he would have sat in place until the end of the trip, without moving. Or doing something for your own good or just to get a reward - this is also an imaginary honor.
Therefore, it is important to be able to distinguish between these two concepts.
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Honor. What it is? What meaning do we put in this word? It is not easy to answer these questions. I think honor is a feeling dignity, the ability to live life in good conscience, not to stain oneself with dishonorable acts, to overcome feelings such as envy, hatred, greed in oneself, so that at the end of life, summing up, one could say that he lived his life honestly. To understand what true and false honor is, let's turn to examples from fiction.
Recall Pushkin's novel The Captain's Daughter. The protagonist of the work, Pyotr Grinev, lives according to the laws of honor, knows how to stand up for the honor of other people. Here he challenges Shvabrin to a duel, who insulted Masha Mironova, the captain's daughter. Grinev not only loves Masha, but also respects the person in her, sees that she is a modest, worthy girl, and is ready to protect her from people who encroach on her honor. Even when Grinev was arrested as an accomplice of Pugachev, he does not tell anyone about the reasons why from Orenburg, without the permission of his commanders, he went to the Belogorsk fortress, occupied by the Pugachevs, because he does not want the name of the captain's daughter to sound at the trial.
Even in the face of death, Grinev did not disgrace his human and military honor. When the fortress was captured by Pugachev, the young officer did not swear allegiance to the impostor and, if it were not for Savelich, he would have been hanged.
"Take care of honor from a young age" - such is the epigraph to Pushkin's novel. AND main character fulfills this commandment throughout all the events described in the work. And the reader is sure that Grinev will live his future life with dignity. This is what true honor is.
In order to understand what false honor is, let us turn again to Pushkin, to his novel "Eugene Onegin". Let's mentally turn over the pages that tell about the duel between Onegin and Lensky. Lensky is offended by the behavior of Onegin, who, on Tatyana's name day, pays attention to the bride of the young poet Olga, dances with her, whispers something to her. A frivolous girl forgets about her fiancé. Onegin and Lensky are friends. Onegin is older, smarter, more experienced. He understands the insignificance of their quarrel, but does not refuse a duel. It seems to me that this is a false honor. Onegin is afraid for his reputation, especially since the old duelist Zaretsky, who himself can hardly be called a man of honor, intervened in the matter. Now rumors about the refusal of the duel or reconciliation with Lensky will spread throughout the district. Onegin will be considered a coward, in society they will talk about him as a man who did not defend his honor. And poor Lensky was killed by a friend in a duel. False honor played its part. Onegin could not resist her, although he loved Lensky in his own way and understood the insignificance of their quarrel.
Makes you think a lot fiction. Including how to live life without confusing the concepts of true and false honor.
I don't like definitions and am often not ready for them. But I can point out some differences between conscience and honor.
There is one essential difference between conscience and honor. Conscience always comes from the depths of the soul, and by conscience they are cleansed to one degree or another. Conscience "gnaws". Conscience is not false. It can be muffled or exaggerated (very rarely). But ideas about honor are completely false, and these false ideas cause enormous damage to society. I mean what is called the "honor of the uniform." We have lost such a phenomenon, unusual for our society, as the concept of noble honor, but the "honor of the uniform" remains a heavy burden. It was as if a man had died, and only the uniform remained, from which the orders were removed. And within which a conscientious heart no longer beats.
The “honor of the uniform” forces the leaders to defend false or vicious projects, to insist on the continuation of obviously unsuccessful construction projects, to fight with the societies protecting monuments (“our construction is more important”), etc. There are many examples of such upholding of the “honor of the uniform”.
True honor is always in accordance with conscience. False honor is a mirage in the desert, in the moral desert of the human (or rather, “bureaucratic”) soul.
About upbringing
You can get a good upbringing not only in your family or at school, but also ... from yourself.
You just need to know what real education is.
I am convinced, for example, that real good breeding manifests itself primarily at home, in one's family, in relations with one's relatives.
If a man on the street lets an unfamiliar woman in front of him (even on a bus!) And even opens the door for her, and at home does not help his tired wife wash the dishes, he is an ill-mannered person.
If he is polite with acquaintances, and gets annoyed with his family for every reason, he is an ill-mannered person.
If he does not take into account the character, psychology, habits and desires of his loved ones, he is an ill-mannered person.
If, already being an adult, he takes the help of his parents for granted and does not notice that they themselves already need help, he is an ill-mannered person.
If he turns on the radio and TV loudly or just talks loudly when someone is preparing homework or reading (even if it be his small children), he is an ill-mannered person and will never make his children well-mannered.
If he likes to make fun (joking) with his wife or children, not sparing their vanity, especially in front of strangers, then here he (excuse me!) is simply stupid.
An educated person is one who wants and knows how to reckon with others, this is one to whom his own courtesy is not only familiar and easy, but also pleasant. This is the one who is equally polite with both older and younger years and position.
A well-mannered person in all respects does not behave “loudly”, saves the time of others (“Accuracy is the courtesy of kings,” the saying goes), strictly fulfills promises made to others, does not put on airs, does not “turn up his nose” and is always the same - at home , at school, at the institute, at work, in the store and on the bus.
The reader has probably noticed that I am addressing mainly the man, the head of the family. This is because a woman really needs to give way... not just at the door.
But clever woman she will easily understand what exactly needs to be done so that, always and with gratitude, accepting from a man the right given to her by nature, as little as possible to force a man to yield to her primacy. And it's much more difficult! Therefore, nature has taken care that women (I'm not talking about exceptions) are endowed with a greater sense of tact and more natural politeness than men ...
There are many books on good manners. These books explain how to behave in society, at a party and at home, in the theater, at work, with older and younger people, how to speak without offending the ear, and dress without offending the eyes of others. But people, unfortunately, draw little from these books. This happens, I think, because good manners books rarely explain what good manners are for. It seems: to have good manners is false, boring, unnecessary. A person with good manners can indeed cover up bad deeds.
Yes, good manners can be very external, but in general, good manners are created by the experience of many generations and mark the centuries-old desire of people to be better, live more comfortably and more beautifully.
What's the matter? What is the basis of the guide to acquiring good manners? Is it a simple collection of rules, “recipes” for behavior, instructions that are difficult to remember all?
At the heart of all good manners is care - care that a person does not interfere with a person, so that everyone feels good together.
We must be able not to interfere with each other. So no need to make noise. You can't close your ears from noise - it is hardly possible in all cases. For example, at the table while eating. Therefore, no need to champ, no need to loudly put a fork on a plate, noisily draw soup into oneself, speak loudly at dinner or speak with a full mouth. And do not put your elbows on the table - again, so as not to disturb your neighbor. It is necessary to be neatly dressed because this shows respect for others - for guests, for hosts or just for passers-by: you should not be disgusting to look at. No need to tire your neighbors with incessant jokes, witticisms and anecdotes, especially those that have already been told by someone to your listeners. This puts the audience in an awkward position. Try not only to entertain others yourself, but also give others the opportunity to tell something. Manners, clothes, gait, all behavior should be restrained and ... beautiful. For any beauty does not tire. She is "social". And in the so-called good manners there is always a deep meaning. Do not think that good manners are only manners, that is, something superficial. Your behavior reveals your essence. It is necessary to educate in oneself not so much manners as what is expressed in manners - a careful attitude to the world: to society, to nature, to animals and birds, to plants, to the beauty of the area, to the past of the places where you live, etc. d.
We must not remember hundreds of rules, but remember one thing - the need for a respectful attitude towards others. And if you have this and a little more resourcefulness, then manners will come to you, or, rather, memory will come to the rules of good behavior, the desire and ability to apply them.
The art of being wrong
I don't like watching TV shows. But there were programs that I always watched: dancing on ice. Then I got tired of them and stopped watching - I stopped watching systematically, I only watch episodically. Most of all I like it when those who are considered weak or who have not yet entered the ranks of the “recognized” perform well. The luck of the beginners or the luck of the unfortunate is much more satisfying than the luck of the lucky ones.
But it's not that. What fascinates me most of all is how the “skater” (as athletes on ice were called in the old days) corrects his mistakes during the dance. He fell and gets up, quickly entering the dance again, and leads this dance as if there had never been a fall. This is art, great art.
But after all, there are many more mistakes in life than on an ice field. And you need to be able to get out of mistakes: correct them immediately and ... beautifully. Yes, it's beautiful.
When a person persists in his mistake or worries too much, thinks that life is over, “everything is lost,” this is annoying both for him and for those around him. People around feel embarrassed not from the mistake itself, but from the inability of the person who makes a mistake in correcting it.
Admitting your mistake to yourself (it is not necessary to do it publicly: then it is either embarrassing or panache) is not always easy, experience is needed. Experience is needed so that after a mistake has been made as soon as possible and as easily as possible to get involved in the work, to continue it. And people around do not need to force a person to admit a mistake, they need to be encouraged to correct it; reacting in the same way that spectators react at competitions, sometimes even rewarding the fallen and easily corrected his mistake with joyful applause at the first opportunity.
Each person is obliged (I emphasize - obliged) to take care of their intellectual development. This is his duty to the society in which he lives and to himself.
The main (but, of course, not the only) way to intellectual development- reading.
Reading should not be random. This is a huge waste of time, and time is the greatest value that cannot be wasted on trifles. You should read according to the program, of course, not strictly following it, moving away from it where there are additional interests for the reader. However, with all the deviations from the original program, it is necessary to draw up a new one for yourself, taking into account the new interests that have appeared.
Reading, in order to be effective, must interest the reader. Interest in reading in general or in certain branches of culture must be developed in oneself. Interest can be largely the result of self-education.
It is not so easy to make reading programs for yourself, and this must be done in consultation with knowledgeable people, with existing reference manuals of various types.
The danger of reading is the development (conscious or unconscious) in oneself of a tendency to "diagonally" view texts or to different kind speed reading methods.
"Speed reading" creates the appearance of knowledge. It can be allowed only in certain types of professions, being careful not to create in oneself the habit of speed reading, it leads to a disease of attention.
Have you noticed what a great impression those works of literature that are read in a calm, unhurried and unhurried environment, for example, on vacation or in case of some not very complicated and not distracting illness, make?
"Uninterested", but interesting reading- this is what makes you love literature and what broadens the horizons of a person.
Why is TV now partially replacing the book? Yes, because the TV makes you slowly watch some kind of program, sit back comfortably so that nothing bothers you, it distracts you from worries, it dictates to you how to watch and what to watch. But try to choose a book to your liking, take a break from everything in the world for a while, sit comfortably with a book, and you will understand that there are many books that you cannot live without, which are more important and interesting than many programs. I'm not saying stop watching TV. But I say: look with a choice. Spend your time on something that is worthy of this waste. Read more and read with the greatest choice. Decide for yourself your choice, in accordance with the role that your chosen book has acquired in the history of human culture in order to become a classic. This means that there is something significant in it. Or maybe this essential for the culture of mankind will be essential for you?
A classic is one that has stood the test of time. You won't waste your time with it. But the classics cannot answer all the questions of today. Therefore, one must read contemporary literature. Don't just jump on every trendy book. Don't be fussy. Worldliness makes a person recklessly spend the largest and most precious capital that he possesses - his time.
LEARN LEARN!
We are entering an age in which education, knowledge, professional skills will play a decisive role in the fate of a person. Without knowledge, by the way, which is becoming more and more complicated, it will simply be impossible to work, to be useful. For physical labor will be taken over by machines, robots. Even calculations will be done by computers, as well as drawings, calculations, reports, planning, etc. Man will bring in new ideas, think about things that a machine cannot think of. And for this, the general intelligence of a person, his ability to create something new and, of course, moral responsibility, which a machine cannot bear in any way, will be needed more and more. Ethics, simple in previous ages, will become infinitely more complex in the age of science. It is clear. This means that the heaviest and the most difficult task to be not just a man, but a man of science, a man morally responsible for everything that happens in the age of machines and robots. General education can create a man of the future, a creative man, the creator of everything new and morally responsible for everything that will be created.
Teaching is what a young person needs now from a very young age. You must always learn. Until the end of his life, not only taught, but also studied all the major scientists. If you stop learning, you won't be able to teach. For knowledge is growing and becoming more complex. At the same time, it must be remembered that the most favorable time for learning is youth. It is in youth, in childhood, in adolescence, in youth, that the human mind is most receptive. Receptive to the study of languages (which is extremely important), to mathematics, to the assimilation of simple knowledge and aesthetic development, standing next to moral development and partly stimulating it.
Know how not to waste time on trifles, on "rest", which sometimes tires more than the hardest work, do not fill your bright mind with muddy streams of stupid and aimless "information". Take care of yourself for learning, for acquiring knowledge and skills that you will master easily and quickly only in your youth.
And here I hear the heavy sigh of a young man: what a boring life you offer our youth! Only study. And where is the rest, entertainment? What are we not to rejoice at?
No. The acquisition of skills and knowledge is the same sport. Teaching is difficult when we do not know how to find joy in it. We must love to study and choose smart forms of recreation and entertainment that can also teach something, develop in us some abilities that will be needed in life.
What if you don't like studying? That cannot be. This means that you simply did not discover the joy that the acquisition of knowledge and skills brings to a child, a young man, a girl.
Look at a small child - with what pleasure he begins to learn to walk, talk, delve into various mechanisms (for boys), nurse dolls (for girls). Try to continue this joy of learning new things. This largely depends on you. Don't promise: I don't like to study! And you try to love all the subjects that you study at school. If other people liked them, then why might you not like them! Read standing books and not just fluff. Study history and literature. An intelligent person should know both well. It is they who give a person a moral and aesthetic outlook, make the world big, interesting, radiating experience and joy. If you don’t like something in any subject, strain and try to find in it a source of joy - the joy of acquiring a new one.
Learn to love learning!
ABOUT MEMORY
Memory is one of the most important properties of being, of any being: material, spiritual, human…
Paper. Squeeze it and straighten it. Wrinkles will remain on it, and if you compress it a second time, some of the folds will fall along the previous folds: paper “has memory” ...
Memory is possessed by individual plants, stone, on which traces of its origin and movement during the ice age remain, glass, water, etc.
The memory of wood is the basis of the most precise special archaeological discipline, which has recently revolutionized archaeological research, - where wood is found - dendrochronology ("dendros" in Greek "tree"; dendrochronology - the science of determining the time of a tree).
Birds have the most complex forms of tribal memory, allowing new generations of birds to fly in the right direction to the right place. In explaining these flights, it is not enough to study only the "navigational techniques and methods" used by birds. Most importantly, the memory that makes them look for winter quarters and summer quarters is always the same.
And what can we say about "genetic memory" - a memory laid down for centuries, a memory that passes from one generation of living beings to the next.
However, memory is not mechanical at all. This is the most important creative process: it is the process and it is creative. What is needed is remembered; through memory, good experience is accumulated, a tradition is formed, everyday skills, family skills, work skills, social institutions are created ...
Memory resists the destructive power of time.
This property of memory is extremely important.
It is customary to primitively divide time into the past, present and future. But thanks to memory, the past enters into the present, and the future is, as it were, foreseen by the present, united with the past.
Memory - overcoming time, overcoming death.
This is the greatest moral significance memory. “Forgetful” is, first of all, an ungrateful, irresponsible person, and therefore incapable of good, disinterested deeds.
Irresponsibility is born from the lack of consciousness that nothing passes without leaving a trace. A person who commits an unkind deed thinks that this deed will not be preserved in his personal memory and in the memory of those around him. He himself, obviously, is not used to cherishing the memory of the past, feeling gratitude to his ancestors, to their work, their concerns, and therefore thinks that everything will be forgotten about him.
Conscience is basically memory, to which is added a moral assessment of what has been done. But if the perfect is not stored in memory, then there can be no evaluation. Without memory there is no conscience.
That is why it is so important to be brought up in a moral climate of memory: family memory, national memory, cultural memory. Family photos are one of the most important "visual aids" for the moral education of children, and adults as well. Respect for the work of our ancestors, for their labor traditions, for their tools, for their customs, for their songs and entertainment. All this is precious to us. And just respect for the graves of ancestors. Remember Pushkin:
Two feelings are wonderfully close to us -
In them the heart finds food -
Love for native land
Love for father's coffins.
Living shrine!
The earth would be dead without them.
Pushkin's poetry is wise. Every word in his poems requires reflection. Our consciousness cannot immediately get used to the idea that the earth would be dead without love for the coffins of the fathers, without love for the native ashes. Two symbols of death and suddenly - a "life-giving shrine"! Too often we remain indifferent or even almost hostile to the disappearing cemeteries and ashes - the two sources of our not too wise gloomy thoughts and superficially heavy moods. Just as the personal memory of a person forms his conscience, his conscientious attitude towards his personal ancestors and relatives - relatives and friends, old friends, that is, the most faithful, with whom he is connected by common memories - so historical memory of the people shapes the moral climate in which the people live. Perhaps one could think about building morality on something else: completely ignoring the past with its sometimes mistakes and painful memories and focusing entirely on the future, building this future on “reasonable grounds” in themselves, forgetting about the past with its dark and light sides.
This is not only unnecessary, but also impossible. The memory of the past is primarily "bright" (Pushkin's expression), poetic. She educates aesthetically.
Human culture as a whole not only has memory, but it is memory par excellence. The culture of mankind is the active memory of mankind, actively introduced into modernity.
In history, every cultural upsurge was in one way or another associated with an appeal to the past. How many times has humanity, for example, turned to antiquity? There were at least four major, epochal conversions: under Charlemagne, under the Palaiologos dynasty in Byzantium, during the Renaissance, and again at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. And how many “small” references of culture to antiquity were in the same Middle Ages, which for a long time were considered “dark” (the British still talk about the Middle Ages - “dark age”). Each appeal to the past was "revolutionary", that is, it enriched the present, and each appeal understood this past in its own way, took from the past what it needed to move forward. I am talking about turning to antiquity, but what did the turning to its own national past give for each people? If it was not dictated by nationalism, a narrow desire to isolate itself from other peoples and their cultural experience, it was fruitful, for it enriched, diversified, expanded the culture of the people, its aesthetic susceptibility. After all, every appeal to the old in the new conditions was always new.
The Carolingian Renaissance in the 6th-7th century was not like the Renaissance of the 15th century, the Italian Renaissance is not like the North European. Appeal of the late XVIII - early XIX century, influenced by the discoveries in Pompeii and the works of Winckelmann, differs from our understanding of antiquity, etc.
Knew several calls to Ancient Rus' and post-Petrine Russia. There were different sides to this appeal. The discovery of Russian architecture and icons at the beginning of the 20th century was largely devoid of narrow nationalism and very fruitful for the new art.
I would like to demonstrate the aesthetic and moral role of memory on the example of Pushkin's poetry.
In Pushkin, memory plays a huge role in poetry. The poetic role of memories can be traced from Pushkin's childhood and youthful poems, of which the most important is "Memories in Tsarskoye Selo", but later on the role of memories is very great not only in Pushkin's lyrics, but even in the poem "Eugene Onegin".
When Pushkin needs to introduce a lyrical element, he often resorts to reminiscences. As you know, Pushkin was not in St. Petersburg during the flood of 1824, but nevertheless, in The Bronze Horseman, the flood is colored by a memory:
“It was a terrible time, about her fresh memory …»
Pushkin also colors his historical works with a share of personal, ancestral memory. Remember: in "Boris Godunov" his ancestor Pushkin acts, in "Moor of Peter the Great" - also an ancestor, Hannibal.
Memory is the basis of conscience and morality, memory is the basis of culture, the "accumulations" of culture, memory is one of the foundations of poetry - an aesthetic understanding of cultural values. Preserving memory, preserving memory is our moral duty to ourselves and to our descendants. Memory is our wealth.
WAYS OF KINDNESS
Here is the last letter. There could be more letters, but it's time to sum up. I'm sorry to stop writing. The reader noticed how the topics of the letters gradually became more complicated. We walked with the reader, climbing the stairs. It could not have been otherwise: why then write, if you remain at the same level, without gradually ascending the steps of experience - moral and aesthetic experience. Life requires complications.
Perhaps the reader has an idea of the letter writer as an arrogant person who tries to teach everyone and everything. This is not entirely true. In letters, I not only "taught", but also studied. I was able to teach precisely because I was learning at the same time: I was learning from my experience, which I was trying to generalize. Much came to my mind as I wrote. I not only stated my experience - I also comprehended my experience. My letters are instructive, but in instructing I myself have been instructed. The reader and I have climbed the steps of experience together, not just my experience, but the experience of many people. Readers themselves helped me write letters - they talked to me inaudibly.
What is the most important thing in life? The main thing can be in shades, each has its own, unique. But still, the main thing should be for every person. Life should not crumble into trifles, dissolve in everyday worries.
And yet, the most important thing: the main thing, no matter how individual it may be for each person, should be kind and significant.
A person should be able not only to rise, but to rise above himself, above his personal daily worries and think about the meaning of his life - look back at the past and look into the future.
If you live only for yourself, with your petty concerns about your own well-being, then there will be no trace of what you have lived. If you live for others, then others will save what they served, what they gave their strength to.
Has the reader noticed that everything bad and petty in life is quickly forgotten. Still people are vexed at a bad and selfish person, at the bad things he has done, but the person himself is no longer remembered, he has been erased from memory. People who do not care about anyone seem to fall out of memory.
people who served others, who served intelligently, who had a good and significant goal in life, are remembered for a long time. They remember their words, deeds, their appearance, their jokes, and sometimes eccentricities. They are told about them. Much less often and, of course, with an unkind feeling, they talk about evil people.
In life, you must have your own service - service to some cause. Let this thing be small, it will become big if you are faithful to it.
In life, kindness is most valuable, and at the same time, kindness is smart, purposeful. Clever kindness is the most valuable thing in a person, the most conducive to him, and the most ultimately true on the path to personal happiness.
Happiness is achieved by those who strive to make others happy and are able to forget about their interests, about themselves, at least for a while. This is the "unchangeable ruble".
Knowing this, remembering this at all times, and following the path of kindness is very, very important. Believe me!
Honor true and false
D. Likhachev vividly discusses true and false honor in the tenth letter of the book “Letters about the Good and the Beautiful”. It is these considerations that I took as the basis of my essay. Likhachev writes that conscience, which is in the subconscious of a person, does not allow him to calm down, “gnaws” from the inside, is a synonym for true honor. Likhachev calls the false honor "the honor of the uniform." This means that a person "in office" often does not act according to his convictions, not according to his conscience, but as the conditions and instructions require. In this case, often personal gain prevails over other people's problems.
Thinking about true honor, I remembered the famous Russian translator Lilianna Lungina. Her memoirs were recorded by O. Dorman and published in the book Interlinear: The Life of Lilianna Lungina, told by her in Oleg Dorman's film. I remember the episode where the translator talks about Claudia Vasilievna Poltavskaya, the director of the school where the girl studied. In the difficult years of repressions, total surveillance, Klavdiya Vasilievna was guided by her moral principles in her work. The director took the girl, whose parents were arrested, to live with her, gave her the opportunity to finish school. Poltavskaya sheltered a homeless boy, picked him up on the street, for moral reasons told everyone that he was her distant relative. For Claudia Vasilievna, it was important that the children trust her, not be afraid of her. At the same time, she was strict with her students. In my opinion, the principal of the school is an example of true honor, because her actions never went against her conscience.
But an example of false honor, in my opinion, is the head of the MTS Knyazhev from the story of V. Tendryakov "Knobs". The truck driver was driving fellow travelers on a bad road. Suddenly, the car overturned, and one of the passengers received a serious abdominal injury. Knyazhev was the first to take up the stretcher and carried the bleeding wounded for eight kilometers off-road. When he reached the first-aid post, he left the stretcher and proceeded to his official duties. When it became clear that the victim was dying, that the count was hours and minutes, they turned to Knyazhev with a request to allocate a tractor to deliver the young man to the area. But the head of the MTS categorically refused to give an order, referring to the instructions. For the bureaucrat Knyazhev, his own importance as a guardian of the law turned out to be higher human life. A few hours later, he nevertheless allocated a tractor, but not because a conscience woke up in him, but because of the fear of a party penalty. But time was lost, the young man died on the way to the regional center. This example vividly illustrates the idea of the "honor of the uniform" of D. Likhachev.
In conclusion, I want to say that people who act according to their conscience never expect applause and gratitude, but do good deeds quietly and from the heart. This distinguishes them from people whose honor is false. “Do good on the whole earth, do good to others for the good. Not for the beautiful thanks to the one who heard you nearby, ”calls the singer Shura. And I completely agree with him.
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What is honor? This is an indicator by which society evaluates the moral dignity of a person, it is our inner judge and limiter associated with the assessment and perception of such qualities as nobility, chastity, morality, valor, honesty, conscientiousness and much more. Objectively speaking, in the world of sins and temptations, it is difficult to be a man of honor - it is much easier for them to appear, to pretend to be such, and this fact leads us to a discussion about what is true honor in this case, and what is imaginary?
In Russian literature, there are many examples of virtues, people who are honest and correct in relation to their thoughts and actions, no less than those whose activities are thoroughly saturated with hypocrisy and falsehood. Imaginary honor is the prerogative of weak and empty personalities who do not know how or do not want to live their own lives, but only pretend to be completely different personalities. Moreover, such people often have a pronounced dissonance of thoughts and actions. The main indicator of imaginary honor is bad faith, while in the case of true honor, conscience comes first. Those who only pretend to be an honest person have no self-respect at all, and honest people, on the contrary, are primarily guided only by their own worldview and worldview, honesty and justice in relation to themselves and to others.
A good example of a man of honor is Pyotr Grinev, the hero of A.S. Pushkin "The Captain's Daughter" We get acquainted with his activities even at an age when a person’s character is not fully formed a priori - however, already quite young, Peter, with absolutely good intentions, thanks the traveler for his help, giving him his sheepskin coat. As the story progresses, we become more and more convinced of the conscientiousness of this hero: he fights for the honor of his beloved in a duel with Shvabrin, well aware of the risk to his own life, but immediately forgives the villain who slandered Mary, realizing that no physical punishment can teach a scoundrel a lesson and inspire him with respect for people, which means that no such punishment makes sense. And even own life for Peter, it does not enter into any rivalry with self-esteem, and therefore, when Pugachev gives the hero a choice: to die or go over to the side of the enemy, Grinev undoubtedly chooses death. Yes, perhaps self-esteem mixed with youthful passion and thoughtlessness in actions often played a cruel joke with Grinev - but over time, when emotions subsided a little, and Peter began to understand the logic of his actions and judgments, his respect for himself and for people only intensified, and the sense of justice became aggravated and sparkled with new colors. Peter is an example of true honor, while Shvabrin, a low, greedy and stupid person, appears in the story as his complete opposite.
No matter how much a person pretends to be who he is not, sooner or later society will recognize his vile essence and accuse this person of dishonor and immorality. Grushnitsky, the hero of the novel by M.Yu., belongs to the type of people with imaginary honor. Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time". From time to time he was ashamed of the fact that he was a soldier, considered this rank unworthy, and “dragging” after Princess Mary, he humiliated himself in every possible way, kowtowed before her, throwing out feigned grandiloquent expressions. The hero even at some point began to hide the lameness, which, perhaps, all this time was only part of his image. He portrayed himself as a serious man, and, it would seem, treated his feelings with dignity and honor, but in an instant, with one refusal of feelings, the princess turned from an “angel” into a “coquette”, love evaporated, and low gossip and rumors. Grushnitsky, being a typical representative of the “water society”, planned for a long time to pretend to be the “hero of the novel”, but his whole essence very quickly got out, and later, having contacted such unworthy personalities as he, he showed a complete absence of honor and dignity, deciding to win a duel by deceit, for which he paid with his life.
To live easier or to live more correctly is the choice that each person makes for himself throughout his life. What is imaginary honor and what is true is easy to understand, each of us is the sculptor of our own destiny, but in any circumstances it is worth remembering the quote by A.P. Chekhov: "Honor cannot be taken away, it can be lost."
