The people there are rude saying: "Born to hang himself - never utopia".It could not be better captures the essence of fatalism: the belief in predestination of all events occurring in the world.
belief that any factors do not depend on a man and his will, and pre-planned somewhere seriously modern society is not accepted.But ... On the one hand, we believe that fatalism - a completely outdated view of things.We are well aware of their own creativity spontaneity, unpredictability of scientific research.On the other hand, we are very familiar with domestic manifestation of this concept.It is a belief that your initiative to anything good will not, or lack of faith in its successful outcome and results.However, there is a belief in fate, not only at the household level.The philosophical and religious fatalism emerged, probably together with the emergence of man as a person.From this point of view it means belief in the impotence of man before the universe, God, the forces of nature.Predetermination of life - the essence of a fatalistic view of the nature of things.
main flow fatalism
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religious - belief in fate, divine predestination.Such faith is characteristic of all the followers of religions, absolutely.It does not allow for other beliefs.
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philosophical and historical - the belief that the nature of life and develop independently of the will and activity of the people.Lack of faith in the will of man, his ability to change the world in human initiative.Short positions can be formulated as follows: it is impossible to avoid disasters (wars, disasters, etc.) for each event inevitable there are objective reasons, therefore, the human will - nothing.
Fatalism - is it good or bad?
doctrine of fate began to spread around the world in ancient times.There are people for whom he is now - the basis of life.The Jews have a notion of fate and lot.Jews, however, think that everything is predetermined, but there is a choice.In Islam, the concept of "Kadar" indicates that everything is happening at the fair will of Allah, and his alone.Hindus believe in the Dharma: it is believed that the "dirty" karma will infinite sinner led the world, making it reborn again and again to "work off" their sins, while "clean" karma completes the cycle of rebirth.Similar concepts exist in Buddhism, Chinese, Japanese, and other philosophies.For those who believe in fate, or people who believe in God fatalism - a connection factors of inanimate nature, acts of God and acts of man as predetermined consequences of these forces.The concept of fatalism is very convenient to certain categories of people.All his life of failure, lack of initiative can be attributed to the life predestined life.Fatalism - is the belief that life is almost complete in the car, and the people - the usual screws in it.From this perspective, heroes, enterprising people, all eager to progress - normal consumables, which should not cherish.From this perspective, one can justify terrorism, and infanticide, and any other crime."So I defined destiny."And who can go against what long ago predestined?Fatalism completely eliminates the concept of "person", "good", "evil", "creativity", "innovation", "heroism" and many others.
