Passionarism
Romantic disposition
Passion and greater causes as the primary criterion of value and action.
Ardent commitment serves transcendent ideals.
Grand aims are embraced whatever the cost.
Disputes are settled radically, without compromise or dissent.
General Meaning
Absolutivity
Biological Level
Maxima-seeking exertion
Cognitive Level
Axiom-first evaluation, contrast over nuance
Psychological Level
High-amplitude, undiluted emotions
Social Level
Fervent mobilization toward overarching causes
Clusters
- 1Passion and idealism versus pragmatism
- 2Emotional contrast and striving for heroic intensity
- 3Principle/theory over benefit, expediency, and practice
- 4Emotional strength (intense emotional life vs calm stability)
- 5Radicalism versus moderation/compromise
- 6Militaristic/hierarchical orientation versus egalitarian/peaceful values
- 7Focus on the general/whole over the particular/individual
- 8Importance of systematic, structured knowledge and truth-seeking
- 9Low consideration of others' interests
- 10Verbal/linguistic retrieval and speech-center efficiency (speech slips)
- 11Higher truths and intuition over practical benefit
- 12Miscellaneous physiological and interpersonal sensitivity indicators