Rigorism

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The rigor (v. Lat. Rigor "stiffness, hardness, inflexibility") refers to

  • in general: an overly strict, rigid way of thinking and acting that adheres to principles and principles , regardless of the specific conditions and situations
  • in the narrower sense: an ethical standpoint , according to which the moral laws are obligatory under all circumstances.

The adjectives "rigorous" and "rigid" are partly synonymous in that they both mean "hard" or "strict". The noun rigorism describes theoretical reasons for particularly ethical / moral hardship, mostly with a derogatory connotation .

philosophy

Stoa

Zeno von Kition advocated a rigorism that should be a "basic character of the stoic attitude".

Kant

Rigorism is addressed primarily with regard to Kant. For him, rigorism can mean two things: on the one hand, a way of thinking, on the other hand, an ethical requirement:

as a way of thinking
“It is very important to ethics in general not to admit any moral meanings, neither in actions ( adiaphora ) nor in human characters, as long as it is possible: because with such an ambiguity all maxims run the risk of their definiteness and stability to lose. They commonly call those who are attached to this strict way of thinking (with a name that is supposed to contain a rebuke, but is in fact praise): 'Rigorists'; and so one can call their antipodes 'Latitudinarians'. So these are latitudinarians of neutrality and like indifferentists, or of the coalition and can be called syncretists ”(in: The religion in the limits of mere reason. 1793).

This is an attempt to present the contents of all practical judgments as either required or prohibited (and not also as optional ).

as an ethical requirement

The demand that only those actions are morally good that are not only "dutiful" but "out of duty".

The interpretation is in dispute. Schiller assumes that Kant is thereby allowing the sense of duty as the only morally good motive. According to others, Kant only wants to forbid "using motifs ... as reasons for their execution."

Spruce

Fichte is also considered a rigorist .

religion

Christianity

  • In the Roman Catholic Church in the 18th century, the representatives of Jansenism and the theological schools of thought closely related to them were first referred to as rigors .
  • A rigorous attitude can be seen as an expression of sinfulness.

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Rigorism  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ zeno.org
  2. ↑ True : Dictionary of the German language. ed. and edit again by Renate Wahrig-Burfeind. German Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-34450-0 .
  3. ^ K. Wuchterl: Introduction to the history of philosophy. Bern et al. 2000, p. 68.
  4. ^ After Oswald Schwemmer : Rigorism. , in: Jürgen Mittelstraß (Hrsg.): Encyclopedia Philosophy and Philosophy of Science. 2nd Edition. Volume 7: Re - Te. Stuttgart, Metzler 2018, ISBN 978-3-476-02106-9 , pp. 151–152
  5. ↑ Kant derived this term from the Stoics , who did not allow any moral middle things (adiaphora) in their teaching.
  6. ^ Oswald Schwemmer : Rigorism , in: Jürgen Mittelstraß (Ed.): Encyclopedia Philosophy and Philosophy of Science. 2nd Edition. Volume 7: Re - Te. Stuttgart, Metzler 2018, ISBN 978-3-476-02106-9 , p. 151 (152)
  7. ^ Rudolf Eucken : Contributions to the introduction to the history of philosophy. 2nd edition, Leipzig 1906.
  8. ↑ Hubert Windisch : Rigorism. In: Christian Schütz (Ed.): Practical Lexicon of Spirituality. Herder, Freiburg i.Br. et al. 1992, ISBN 3-451-22614-6 , Sp. 1061 (1062):
    If, in the phenomenon of rigorism, homo incurvatus is grasped in seipsum in a specific way , then rigorism is a special expression of sinful and unredeemed existence.