Tenderness Has Saved the World

By Begaly Tagaev and Zamir Osorov

E. G. Yakovlev writes about new rethinking of the emotional, sensitive components of the world and knowledge about it, based on the achievements and realities of present time, in his article The Category of Good in the History of World Aesthetics. The scientist draws attention to the concepts of beauty and good that were inherent in the aesthetic culture of the peoples of the Ancient EastChina, Japan, and India. What the philosophers of the East called good and beautiful defined as the independent philosophical and moral-aesthetic categories. Due to development of society, comprehending the historical, social, and moral aspects of being, a person realized and comprehended the advanced aesthetic ideas of his time in their inseparable connection with universal human values and ideals. Aesthetic categories developed by ancient Eastern civilizations are akin to similar discoveries made by ancient Greece, where also the term calos-agatos used to characterize the good and beautiful.

Moreover, the aesthetic category of beauty and tenderness has always been presented in the Kyrgyz oral folk creativity. No wonder, in this respect, that Aitmatovs works continued and developed these traditions of oral folk art, which is an integral part of the aesthetics of the East, but great writers shift up the problem of awareness of aesthetic values to the next level.

What we have seen today as acceleration development of technologies and information culture on a global scale has demonstrated enormous potential and possibilities of the humankind and our epoch. At the same time, the very development of technology and information technology have required a new awareness and discovery of moral and aesthetic values that are not only the result of this development but must be contribute with additional moral efforts for the sake of further harmonious development of mankind. The earlier we understand this, the sooner we will rebuild our attitude to the reality surrounding us and going away from a purely technocratic perception of reality. Whats more, such approach will contribute significantly to the harmonious development of our society.

No matter how we try to limit our achievements within the framework of purely technological foundations, however, if we avoid studying and comprehending the problems of aesthetic rethinking of our present reality and future, our advance will be limited and our existence is fragile and our surviving problematic because aesthetic and emotional component of our being will remain as the most important part of it, which is only capable of ensuring our harmonious development and safe future.

That is why E. G. Yakovlev, in his study of aesthetics, draws close attention to the nature of beauty in the ancient literature of the East. Although he does not speak of the category of tenderness, nevertheless, there no doubt that exactly tenderness is one among many categories that is combating rudeness, cruelty, and imperfection, which is reigning in our modern world. This fight makes tenderness as a specific category and defines its integral and exceptionally valuable part and role in our life and looking broadlyas one universally established category, which is equal to beautiful and good and indispensable

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Jun 29, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543746587

Begaly Tagaev

The Kyrgyz philosopher and esthetician Begaly Tagaev in his monograph Naziktik temasy Kyrgyz adabiatynda(Tenderness as esthetic category and its dominance in Kyrgyz modern and ancient literature) came to firm conclusion that our world and mankind find way to harmony and peace just only through the laws of justice and tenderness. John Lennon and Leo Tolstoy had been right: we must do everything to escape hate, war - and turn to love and peace. Moreover, every living creature in the world and even any object and phenomenon or manifestation of objective and subjective world should be considered as unique and extraordinary thing that requires appropriate with reverent attitude and comprehension. For the simple reason - our world was born from these awe and rapture and supported by their mode and laws. Than further forward moving humanity, than clearer, deeper and fuller will aware that one of the main obstacles to its development are the rudeness and cynicism belonged and coherent his nature too long, which was being imposed by his past and present imperfection and incompetence.

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Contents

1. General Description

2. Purpose and Objectives of the Study

3. Basic Provisions

4. Theoretical and Methodical Bases of Research

5. Novelty

6. General Volume and Structure of Dissertation

7. Tenderness as Aesthetic and Philosophical Concept

8. The Musical and Folclore Creativity of Kyrgyz People

9. Conclusion

10. The Circling Flights of Bird Called Nazik

11. Messengers of the blue star

General Description

Relevance of the topic

How deeply one comprehends the social life in practical, theoretical, scientific and other respects, so deeply receives life in the spiritual-intellectual and artistic-aesthetic sense.

As pointed by the post-soviet aesthetics Y.A. Lukin and V.K. Skatershchikov: "… In the process of this development, we are learning the aesthetic aspects of reality, developing to them a certain attitude and transforming the world according to the laws of beauty.

The great Russian literary critic V.G. Belinsky, who dedicated all his life to the study of Russian literature and culture, had been himself the stunning incarnation of the Russian intelligentsia, who once said the following heartfelt words about what should be the main essence of human:

Without him, without this feeling of beauty, there is no genius, no talent, no mind, there remains one common sense, common to obscure everyday life, for small calculations of selfishness, trifles and trashes, Who responds to dance rhythms only… whose soul does not care about music; who sees at the picture a haberdashery only for decorating an apartment, who did not fall in love with poetry… who sees in the drama only a theatrical play and in the novel a fairy-tale for spectators, who come to theater from boredom…he isn’t a human.

Moreover, today we continue to struggle with such negative aspects of our life. We, following the great critic who once subjected to a profound analysis of the manifestations of various forms of rudeness and vulgarity in everyday life, cannot fail to note that even today the prosperity of our reality, rudeness, and uncouthness, and clumsiness do great harm to our aesthetic development and comprehension of our present and future.

With such manifestations of savagery and backwardness, Chingiz Aitmatov fought in his work as a great writer of his time. These problems revealed deeply and comprehensively in all his works.

Pearls for swines and treasures of Superposition

Although in our reality people aren’t listening at the top and so many good intentions, excellent suggestions, ideas wasted for nothing, happily, the world of Superposition has operated quite differently – the sincere whispering there able to make a wonderful and great reactions and challenges. Up there reigned a law of love, wisdom and of tenderness. We know it for the eternal fruits, treasures and jerms which have found way to the future going successfully through all tests of times, space and up and down of harsh realities.

Let us turn, for example, to the novel "Gulsarat’.

The new chairman of the kolkhoz appointed by the high authorities, entering into the management of the economy, first of all, not only brazenly takes away from Tanabai, the kolkhoz’s shepherd, his remarkable horse for ride on him as bashkarma of collective farm but orders to castrated this poor animal for makes its behavior more complacently - for not harm a big boss or even run away from him. In fact we are talking about the priceless horse, for whom in other times some rulers would be glad to give up half of the kingdom.

Against such manifestations of rudeness, Ch. Aitmatov fought not only in his novels and stories, but also in journalism, as well as in everyday reality. He knew well what disasters this could turn out to be in our life.

Here is how he expressed this idea in a conversation with the literary critic L. Levchenko: In the most ordinary life there are thousands of manifestations of cruelty. And you need courage, and ability to see these manifestations. For example, a person may be completely normal, but at the core of his heart, there is cruelty. How will he behave in a crisis? What will win in it - good or evil beginning? What kind of person we may call as evil or good? If he is good then how long it might be lasts and what kind of place and environment suited for that? And what is the price to be a coy?

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After that, the writer conducts a conversation about public callousness and heartlessness in everyday routine life. For me, such hidden potential cruelty is more interesting than fights and murders. Although, I repeat, I am not investigating it. I am trying to show in man the reserves of those human forces that are struggling with evil.

All these shows how deeply and widely the writer was interested in the problem, being aware of importance of such an internal struggle for society and life.

Here is how the writer speaks about the problem, answering to the question posed by Levchenko: Why do you again and again turn to the theme of the Great Patriotic War, despite the fact that it’s been 30 years since it ended?

Since mankind has not yet come to planetary thinking, because everyone does not yet think of the other as about himself, not wanting to reckon with the fact that he also fears death, suffers, accumulates own experiences and loves life as much as you do, because the contradictions and opposing forces in the development of the world society still exists, threatening to resolve in military clashes - this theme remains as one of the most attractive for me - for its terrible experience, which have had our generation, as some kind of, I would say, preventive topics, as the mean to show and depict the worst things, which might happen with us (if the work, of course, written from the point of humanist stylistic positions).

Along with other aesthetic values, one of the most gifted modern writer paid special attention to the theme of tenderness in his works, developing and supplementing this central motif from book to book.