rigorism
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- noun Harshness or strictness in conduct, judgment, or practice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun Severity, as of style, or the like.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun Rigidity in principles or practice; exactingness; strictness; severity, as of style, conduct, etc.; especially, severity in the mode of life; austerity.
Examples
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The idea of "religion" has become tainted with connotations of rigorism, intolerance, legalism, and even terrorism.
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As a Jansenist, Pascal is a moral rigorist, and part of the Wager is clearly to start libertines off on the road to moral rigorism -- not to make them moral rigorists, obviously, but to get libertines closer to it.
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Because Pascal wishes to argue that the case is one where the difference between the safer case (believing God exists) and the less safe case (disbelieving) is massive, the Wager itself does not commit one to any particular position in epistemological casuistry; it does, however, commit the user to a denial of epistemological rigorism.
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It would have sufficed to tell all the causes of her misfortunes, -- loneliness and poverty from the age of fourteen years, the corruption of the rich, who are there to lie in wait for hunger and to blight the flower of innocence, the pitiless rigorism of opinion, which allows no return and accepts no expiation.
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When the Saint began to hear confessions, however, he soon saw the harm done by rigorism, and for the rest of his life he inclined more to the mild school of the Jesuit theologians, whom he calls "the masters of morals".
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Whilst this unpopular rigorism was in full force the war unexpectedly broke out, and added greatly to the existing discontent.
Note
The word 'rigorism' is formed from 'rigor' and the suffix '-ism'.
