Rigorism is the destruction of individuality

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:40

Rigorism is strict observance of laws and established norms, without the right to make a mistake, adamant adherence to principles, not perceiving other people's opinions, any other principles that differ from the original ones. This phenomenon occurs quite often. Rigorism is the demand for complete and absolute obedience to the rules. In some cases, even contrary to common sense, reason, expediency and logic. This is a transition from dignity to disadvantage, but somewhere rigorism can have a positive effect in a slight degree.

Examples of rigorism:

• Communists.
• Religious communities.
• Military service.

Philosophy

The first to discover rigorism in philosophy was the famous German scientist I. Kant. In his opinion, a person should strive for the ideal, guided by the rule: "Do good and do no evil." Pretty good views, right? Maybe. But a man is a man. Blindly following principles, he forgets the purpose of his actions.

Religion

Let's look at this with a specific example - rigorism in religion. The more a person blindly follows the higher rules, the better he feels. However, any deviation fromnorms leads to unacceptable sin, sin leads to hell, and hell is the worst thing a believer fears. Thus, a person is ready to abandon any of his own attitudes, to coordinate every action with the norms of his religion, if only not to anger God. In this case, it will be absolutely unimportant what such behavior will lead to on Earth, the main thing is to avoid fire after death. Such attitudes destroy individuality, but they perfectly bring up pedantry and blind adherence to principles.

Thus, rigorism is the destruction of religion itself. After all, taking the rules of his faith as a standard and following them, without thinking about the correctness of his actions, a person risks losing true faith. Religion has never promoted rigorism. On the contrary, every way of believing in God speaks of the freedom of mankind. The same trend can be carried out in philosophy. Pointlessly following one theory (for example, Kant's theory), not taking into account other versions, everyone risks losing their own Self.

Freedom

Rigorism is bringing dignity to the extreme. The denial of the rules, as well as 100% compliance with them, leads to an exceptional destruction of one's own opinion. A rigorist is obsessed with the idea of his principles and forgets that there is a mass of everything around that is more interesting than the framework into which he has driven himself. Each person is free, we set limits for ourselves, but by learning to compromise and look for a "golden mean", we can become free and independent.