Moral rigorism as the idea of a “terrorist dream”

Alexander Chaika,B Yazyev

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20197201017

Abstract

The author describes the trends and reasons for perceiving terrorism as a narrowly criminal politicized community in the article. Terrorism is seen as a political protest, as a form of political activity of a kind of aesthetic color. The author gives a philosophical and cultural assessment of terrorism through a comparison of fascism and "igilism" as a permanent drift from terrorist muscle groups to the creation of a single and homogeneous totalitarian terrorist organization, and later on to a totalitarian-terrorist state implementing a genocide policy. Terrorist activity is compared with moral rigorism, based on the need for liberation from liberal values expressed in modern constitutional law. The idea of a "terrorist dream" is viewed through the prism of such concepts as freedom, happiness, and the ideal in which the myth of "social happiness" is presented as the ideology of modern radical Islamism.

Highlights

Terrorism, developing on modern soil, embossedly demonstrates the specific trends of the mass culture genesis, the process of its general dehumanization
Habermas, who wrote: “in certain situations, terrorist activity may be associated with the excessive intensity of one of the cultural moments, that is, with the tendency to aesthetize politics, replace it with moral rigorism, or subordinate it to any dogmatism of some kind teachings ”[6]
The actualization of terrorism as a possible form of political activity, apparently, is connected, among other things, with a certain stereotype of thinking, when the awareness of the personal selectivity (God's chosenness) of some individuals forms a belief in the ability to act and live only in accordance with their own beliefs and intentions

Summary

Introduction

Terrorism, developing on modern soil, embossedly demonstrates the specific trends of the mass culture genesis, the process of its general dehumanization. Habermas, who wrote: “in certain situations, terrorist activity may be associated with the excessive intensity of one of the cultural moments, that is, with the tendency to aesthetize politics, replace it with moral rigorism, or subordinate it to any dogmatism of some kind teachings ”[6].

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