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| | Fatalism - definition of Fatalism in Encyclopedia |
 | | Fatalism is, roughly, the view that the future is already set and therefore, that human deliberation and actions are pointless because things have to be the way they have to be. | | | Although determinists would accept that the future is in some sense set, they accept human actions as factors that will cause the future to take the shape that it will - even though those human actions are themselves determined; if they had been different, the future would also be different. | | | Determinism should therefore not be mistaken for fatalism. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Fatalism
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| | Fatalism |
| | Fatalism is the view that we are powerless to do anything other that what we actually do. | | | If it did we could solve the argument for fatalism which is based on causal determinism simply by pointing out that, if determinism is true, the fact that Jones will mow the lawn is entailed by a proposition about initial conditions and laws of nature, so that the latter is merely a soft fact. | | | This is not to say that fatalism does not pose any problem at all for the rationality of deliberation. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fatalism
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fatalism |
| | Spinoza's pantheistic necessarianism is, however, perhaps the frankest and most rigid form of fatalism advocated by any leading modern philosopher. | | | The mechanical theory of Democritus, which explains the universe as the outcome of the collision of material atoms, logically imposes a fatalism upon human volition. | | | Whilst the belief in predestined lot has tended to make the Moslem nations lethargic and indolent in respect to the ordinary industries of life, it has developed a recklessness in danger which has proved a valuable element in the military character of the people. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05791a.htm
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| | Hellenistic Astrology [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | This context places Neoplatonic philosophy in a difficult relationship with astrology and fatalism. | | | Astrology would become an important issue for Neoplatonists, with some rejecting it and others embracing it, though not within a context of strict fatalism. | | | Fragments attributed to Thrasyllus, the philosopher-astrology include such methods. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/astr-hel.htm
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| | Fatalism and true prophecy |
| | Fatalism is generally the belief that events are determined by fate and that nothing can be done to change it's outcome. | | | Fatalism may be consistent with a belief that events are caused by a determining principle or force in the universe, such as God who determines everything. | | | Of course this is in conflict with the theory of free will, which allows people the freedom to choose their actions, which are not predetermined by any force other than their own will. |
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http://nostradamus.time-loops.net/Fatalism.htm
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| | fatalism - Thesaurus |
| | destiny, destination; fatality, fate, dismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot fortune; fatalism; inevitableness adj.; spell. |
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http://www.yourthesaurus.net/fatalism.html
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