Abstract
AbstractThis chapter offers a new account of fanaticism. It argues that fanaticism is based upon a constellation of psychological traits including personal fragility, a belief in the precariousness of certain values, and a form of group orientation. The fanatic is distinguished by four features: the adoption of one or more sacred values; the need to treat these values as unconditional in order to preserve her identity; the sense that the status of these values is threatened by lack of widespread acceptance; and the identification with a group, where the group is defined by shared commitment to the sacred value. The chapter explains how these features are mutually reinforcing, and it argues that these features dispose the agent towards the types of violent intolerance that we typically associate with fanaticism.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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