Concept
Fatalism
Overview
Fatalism is a belief and philosophical doctrine which considers the entire universe as a deterministic system and stresses the subjugation of all events, actions, and behaviors to fate or destiny, which is commonly associated with the consequent attitude of resignation in the face of future events which are thought to be inevitable and outside of human control.
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A fatalist believes, or half believes (for nobody is a consistent fatalist), not only that whatever is about to happen will be the infallible result of the causes which produce it (which is the true necessitarian doctrine), but moreover that there is no use in struggling against it; that it will happen, however we may strive to prevent it. Now, a necessitarian, believing that our actions follow from our characters…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
Names Fatalism several times; opens on Fatalism.
But, of all the important advantages the human race would be enabled to derive from the doctrine of fatalism, if man was to apply it to his conduct, none would be of greater magnitude, none of more happy consequence, none that would more efficaciously corroborate his happiness, than that general indulgence, that universal toleration, that must necessarily spring from the opinion, that _all is necessary_. In…
Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1
Names Fatalism twice; opens on Fatalism.
The tremendous sagacity of this fatalism, which does not always imply merely the courage for death, but which in the most dangerous cases may actually constitute a self-preservative measure, amounts to a reduction of activity in the vital functions, the slackening down of which is like a sort of will to hibernate. A few steps farther in this direction we find the fakir, who will sleep for weeks in a tomb....
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen
The author is tied to Fatalism in the knowledge graph; opens on Fatalism.
Philosophers who discussed Fatalism
- Linda Zagzebski
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Gilles Deleuze
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- Christian Wolff (philosopher)
- Simplicius of Cilicia
- Peter Wessel Zapffe
- Théodore Jouffroy
Related ideas
- B-theory of time
- Belief
- Predeterminism
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Outline of ancient India
- Ājīvika
- Sentient beings (Buddhism)
- Hinduism
- Indology
- Philosophy
- History of India
- Two truths doctrine
- Indian religions
- Jainism
- Truth value
- Philosophy East and West
- Karma
- Saṃsāra
- Al-Farabi
- Mind–body dualism
- Moksha
- London
- Āgama (Buddhism)
- Skandha
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Determinism.