Western Identity, Barbarians and the Inheritance of Greek Universalism

This paper argues that a specific philosophical and historical understanding of the thought of ancient Greece was used to establish a common excellent Western identity. Starting with the difference between the terms of ethnocentricism and Eurocentricism, I reconstructed the rise of Eurocentricism by studying the change in Greek and barbarian concepts from ancient Homer's text to Aristotle. In Part 3, we explore how Western philosophical and cultural historians use this Greek self-understanding to legalize the Western cultural advantage based on universalism. Finally, we discussed some possibilities for this type of European central identity politics.

An early example of foreign phobia in Western culture is that Greek people and culture are superior to anyone else and the ancient Greeks crushed foreigners into "barbarians", after which barbarians became enslaved It was a conclusion that it means to be done. In the speech of Mania Suasirius, the ancient Romans also said that "Macedonians, Thracians, and Iruce are the most excellent countries, where Syrians and Asian Greeks, human beings born of slavery are useless There are people. "

This paper argues that a specific philosophical and historical understanding of the thought of ancient Greece was used to establish a common excellent Western identity. Starting with the difference between the terms of ethnocentricism and Eurocentricism, I reconstructed the rise of Eurocentricism by studying the change in Greek and barbarian concepts from ancient Homer's text to Aristotle. In Part 3, we explore how Western philosophical and cultural historians use this Greek self-understanding to legalize the Western cultural advantage based on universalism. Finally, we discussed some possibilities for this type of European central identity politics.

"There is no doubt in ancient times, one of the main meanings of this word is linguistics, savage people are those who do not speak Greek," Professor Constantinos Flasso of the University of Crete, Professor of Historical Archeology wrote. Book "Greek and barbarians" (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Vlassopoulos pointed out that ancient Greeks occasionally used that word in chaotic and contradictory ways. One problem they encountered was that there was no consensus at least until Alexander the Great, as to who told Greek or not to say it among ancient Greeks. "There are various regional and regional dialects that can be understood more or less," Vlassopoulos wrote.