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- 1. relating to or characteristic of the belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable: "many have an almost fatalistic attitude toward their own health"
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Definition of fatalistic adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1 day ago · adjective [oft ADJ about n] If someone is fatalistic about something, especially an unpleasant event or situation, they feel that they cannot change or control it, and therefore that there is no purpose in trying. People we spoke to today were really rather fatalistic about what's going to happen. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
noun [ U ] us / ˈfeɪ·t̬ ə lˌɪz·əm / Add to word list. the belief that people cannot change the way events will happen and that esp. bad events cannot be avoided. fatalistic. adjective us / ˌfeɪt̬· ə lˈɪs·tɪk / (Definition of fatalism from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of fatalism.
fatalistic. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English fa‧tal‧is‧tic /ˌfeɪtlˈɪstɪk / adjective believing that there is nothing you can do to prevent events from happening → fate a fatalistic approach to life —fatalistically /-kli/ adverb Examples from the Corpus fatalistic • Emma was fatalistic about her future.
- I. Definition
- II. History
- III. Controversies
- IV. Famous Quotes About Fatalism
- V. Types
- VI. Fatalism Versus Free Will
- VII. Fatalism in Pop Culture
Thank you for reading this. You didn’t have to. Or did you? I mean, before you started reading, one of two things was true; either it was true that you were going to read this, or it was true that you were not going to read it. If at that time (before you started reading), it was true that you were going to read it, you can’t change that truth, can...
A lot of people believe that God has a plan for them. How could she not? If she’s god. It’s part of the western definition of God that she is omniscient (all-knowing) and omnipotent (all-powerful); therefore, the only way she could not have a plan for you, is if she didn’t care what happens to you. Moreover, life holds some suffering for everyone, ...
Does natural law imply that fatalism is true?
We certainly have very good reason to believe that all physical events are caused by previous physical events, and that all events are physical, or at least not supernatural. This has been the most popular view for several hundred years—at least since Isaac Newton, whose theories of motion and gravity popularized the idea of the “billiard ball universe.” This is the idea that if one were to know the position and condition of every piece of matter and energy in the universe at any given moment...
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Fatalism triumphs over those who believe in it. One of the great existentialist philosophers, Simon de Beauvoir appropriately ignores the metaphysical question of fatalism’s reality, focusing instead on how the belief affects our lives. Existentialists believe that, at the least, we have the ability to interpret our lives, and from this point of view fatalism is wrong, if not metaphysically, practically, and perhaps morally. Because, believing you have no power over your fate could have devas...
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A rare and fascinating quote to come from Johannes Kepler, the early 17thcentury astronomer, who spent most of his life as an administrator in the Catholic Church, and published the first widely accepted theory that the Earth and other planets orbit the sun. Thus, considering his devotion to both Catholicism and the deterministic physics of astronomy, it is remarkable to see this quotation which seems to say that our fates are only shaped but not determined by physics or God (the stars). One...
Interventionist Theological Fatalism: discussed in section II, this is a label for the ancient belief that our fates are, at least sometimes determined by active divine intervention in our lives. Omniscience Fatalism: the argument that fatalism must be true because God, or some other force, already knows all facts, past, present, and future, making...
Free will, the ability to choose what we will, necessarily contradicts most kinds of fatalism, although not all. You might believe that you are fated to fall in love with a certain person, or other significant life-events without ruling out free will in smaller matters. But if you believe that all events are pre-determined or pre-known by God, then...
Example #1: The Matrix
This scene from the first Matrix film alludes to both “omniscience fatalism” and “logical fatalism.” The Oracle is said to be omniscient about events in the Matrix, because she is one of its creators. At the same time, she prods Neo with the paradox of “logical fatalism”; if her statements about the future are true, logically, the future can’t change those truths, but common sense tells us that a person who knows what is going to happen can change it. The films’ solution to this paradox is re...
fatalism. noun. /ˈfeɪtəlɪzəm/. /ˈfeɪtəlɪzəm/. [uncountable] the belief that events are decided by fate and that you cannot control them; the fact of accepting that you cannot prevent something from happening. There is a mood of profound fatalism amongst party members.
Someone "fatalistic" — who displays fatalism — sees life as a series of inevitable, predetermined events. Often, this term is used negatively to describe someone who refuses to try to shape their own lives or who gives up too easily. Fatalism may in fact be a logical response to life, but that's no reason not to try to change things!
