Seriousness

The gravity or seriousness ( borrowed from medieval Latin seriositas for the " seriousness " or the " seriousness" ) refers - in contrast to the levity - a targeted risk -conscious intellectual or mental attitude, which ultimately affect the survival of something ( person, family, race ecosystem, dignity, values, theory, concept, soul ... is directed ). This often involves a held, measured, methodical, creating emotional and volitional control. In terms of descriptions and theories of Ernst focuses on the consistent agreement of statements with reality (→ truth, honesty ). Letting Go, a playful attitude, irony and humor to balance the excessive or pedantic Ernst and assign to a broader appropriateness.

General meaning

The credibility of a person or an institution depends on the seriousness, communicates with them. Phrases such as "I take this thing seriously," or " I'll take you seriously," already indicated this epistemological meaning in everyday language.

In view of the typical European division between Ernst, or arts and entertainment, the Ernst a significant cultural theoretical reference category dar. In Grimm the German dictionary is the " seriousness " with the Latin metonym " veritas " and synonyms such as " severitas ", " sedulitas " and " studies " translated: "and so ask yourself seriously and spil, serious fight, where it's time to live, and spil, bloszes knights game, tournament each other often conflict (...). but already ahd suppressed ernust, more decisively MHG ernest the serium, certum, verum, without any thought of battle and against the disgraceful and serious, joking and serious ( ... ) are set against ".

The category is serious in European intellectual history, philosophy, religion, music and culture that are of central importance.

The seriousness of an individual is dependent, among other things, by his appearance. So also dubious persons can be upgraded in their seriousness by external changes. Reliability is therefore dependent as subjective and the cultural values ​​and context.

Ernst in selected areas

Ernst and entertainment in the Cultural Policy

The term Ernst plays for the classification of work in the musical societies a major role (see the distribution provisions of the GEMA or the AKM ). Serious Music ( classical music ) gets a higher Tantiemeneinstufung as popular music ( pop music ). Since the Ernst constitutes a criterion of art and culture more significant, it is in the cultural-political discourse of particular relevance. While music has serious character Subventionswürdigkeit, the state of art of popular music promotes only as part of a quality independent business promotion if they have potential for indirect returns, so can expect positive effects for restaurants, overnight stays, or other consumption. Basically, the term is serious in projects of importance in which institutions of art (eg: theater, opera, concert, festival ) with the Creative Industries ( pop-rock ensembles, commercial or feature film, gaming industry, design, etc. ) are to cooperate. Date there are no binding models for such inter aesthetic and interinstitutional penetrations.

Ernst in music

The separation between " serious music " and " popular music " is a specific feature of European collecting societies dar. In Austria, the legal basis for this split in two quality classes in 1936, created by the Collecting Societies Act. The collecting society AKM practiced these different classification of the royalties from works - like many other European societies too - but much earlier. The separation between classical and popular music led to the collecting society AKM in the 1960s to litigation, which were for many years the topic of daily newspapers.

Ernst in consumer policy

The manifestations of encodings of gravity within the clichés of entertainment are manifold. In the entertainment politics of the commercial American cinema the interplay of gravity and entertainment in the form of co-operation between the Ministry of Defense of the United States and the film industry in Hollywood has a long tradition. India also developed a highly successful economically and politically important film culture entertainment with Bollywood. Both in Germany and in the U.S. can be explained in the film the encounter between seriousness and entertainment as part of the propaganda to prove, but also in the form of cultural and socio- critical entertainment products, such as the Chaplin classic Modern Times (USA 1936) or The Great Dictator (USA 1940).

Today, commercial or feature film, popular music and the games industry form a large stage, a " frequency " for global discourses within globally networked media companies. What the aesthetic feelings of civil socialized media critics of the early twentieth century offended - just think of Walter Benjamin's famous essay on the loss of the aura of works of art by technical reproduction - today is a fundamental pattern of media communication of identity programs. Virtualization, Trans authorship and series form the entertainment cultures do not always lead to a restricted, dominated by reality -distorting ideologies of the world, but also generate differentiated perspectives. With the increasing importance of the medial Entertainment lost the retrograde European high culture and classical works canon in importance. As a result of this shift in meaning dissolved in the entertainment culture it once so successfully cultivated protest and subversion character.

Ernst in European Philosophy

From ancient times to the modern era can be found in European intellectual history, a serious view to demonstrate in which also owns the serenity as a necessary for the process of understanding their place distance principle. Knowledge - for example, those in the context of aesthetic perception - requires, in principle distance to the object of perception. Using word search programs in the full-text search can be seen that the term Ernst in European philosophy in epistemological, existential philosophical and anthropological issues play a major role. This rank of the term but not inspired, as with his counterpart categories "game" and " laughter " to a wealth of monographic presentations.

On the subject of Ernst Plato and Aristotle expressed. In Greek, however, the term has a much broader - also implying moral qualities - of meanings. After Sigbert Latzel the scriptures of Plato and Aristotle to cover " serious " can not be read as a theory of gravity. Of fundamental importance for understanding the work is the term Ernst in the existential philosophy of Kierkegaard, Søren. In the twentieth century, particularly the French moral philosopher Vladimir Jankélévitch addressed the topic of " seriousness ".

Ernst in the Bible

In Bible translations of Ernst likely to occur in the context of truth, diligence and determination. In the German Grimm's dictionary says:

Ernst in intercultural communication

In the truth system and mentality programs of various ethnic groups and their cultures, the category Ernst a keyword dar. assessments, such as the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz, who sees Europe as a country " where historical pessimism so often seen as a feature of life and education" or findings of a 2009 study published in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which exists in Europe a deep -reaching cultural pessimism, provide promising tools for comparative research. Cross-cultural differences are systematically investigated within the organization theory and management science.

As different as the Ernst- conceptions, as different assessment of wit and fun. As is known, do not laugh all the peoples on the same joke. In the Euro - Knigge für Manager John Mole shows - but more intuitive than scientifically accurate - in different programs of serenity and seriousness on. About Germany it is said to him: "As an American or Briton feels may be required to meetings or presentations to intersperse jokes, or an Italian or Frenchman may be carried away with the occasional witty remarks, a German remains constantly seriously."

On the discrepancy between a European intellectual history in which very probably also the serenity as distance principle of knowledge plays a fundamental role and the official culture of Europe, which primarily cultivates the passion and the dissonance in theater, opera, concert, festival and pumped feature film, has Gottfried Kinsky Weinfurter in his book The European Ernst back. With the exclusion of the Revels from the official Ernst also the importance of the former representative government high culture took off: " The concept of art of the official European culture (synonym: ' legitimate culture ') and the subsidy foundations are based on the separation between entertainment and seriousness, body and spirit, reproduction and original series and unique, worthlessness and value, commerciality and non - commerciality, the, strangers ' and the ' Self'. " As a result of this separation of the public, continental European Ernst is determined by body hostility, lust, abandonment, pain willingness entertainment contempt, an educational art and dissonance dogmas by Kinsky Weinfurter.

Ernst in Sports

In sports with a high risk for health or survival, such as the climbing sports, there are independent on the difficulty scale of seriousness, which aims to hedge the technical risk and the psychological pressure.