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is "fatality," another "fatalism." Fate implies no choice ... ==Fatalism== Fatalism is commonly referred to as "the doctrine ...

*every demonstrative method ends in fatalism (nihilism) *we can demonstrate only similarities (agreements, truths conditionally necessary), proceeding ...

shek. In between he becomes governed by fatalism, desiring simply to kill ... #039;s actions. Ch'en succumbs to a fatalism brought on by the dehumanization ...

===Self-knowledge and anti-fatalism=== In contrast to the teachings of Confucius, Mozi's moral teachings emphasized self-reflection and authenticity ...

Ajivika (also written Ajivaka; correct transliteration Ājīvika) was an ancient philosophical and ascetic movement of the Indian subcontinent ...

*"Rejecting Music" and "Rejecting Fatalism." The humane (ren) person opposes the extravagant musical entertainment and other ...

the same status as God and teaching pagan fatalism as if it were a Christian ... heresy. One was Manicheanism, a form of fatalism which upheld the total sovereignty ...

of human control. He would reflect this fatalism in his style of play, creating ... of symbolist plays characterized by fatalism and mysticism, most importantly ...

elements of Platonism, Stoicism, Islamic fatalism and reverence for the emperor. Plethon also wrote about the condition of the Peloponnesus, compiled ...

for his own sin due to the Manichaean fatalism. But, as soon as he became a Christian, Augustine became a strong adversary of Manichaeism, denouncing ...

with free will is known as theological fatalism. If man is truly free to choose between different alternatives, it is very difficult to understand ...

In them he criticized the "biological fatalism" of Cesare Lombroso, and in 1886 he published his well-known book, La Criminalité Comparée ...

In fact Leibniz opposed fatalism and had a more nuanced and characteristic version of the principle, in which the contingent was admitted on ...

by three false principles, atheism, religious fatalism which refers all moral distinctions to the will of God, and thirdly the fatalism of the ancient ...

with morality, saw an element of fatalism in the doctrines of Augustine. He maintained that after the Fall man’s soul was still inherently ...

which reveals his increasing streak of romantic fatalism in his view of England in his later years—prophesizing a complete destruction of the countryside ...

on Aristotle were tinged with pantheism, fatalism and other Neo-platonic errors, and this gave rise to a new wave of conflict within the universities ...

Extreme fatalism (used as a goad towards spontaneity in thought and deed) 7 楊朱 Yang Chu Yang Chu Hedonism--pursuit of pleasure is the only ...

he had to address the problem of fatalism in Manichaeism, of which he used to be a member. Opposing it from his new vantage-point as a Christian ...

Thomas Hardy (June 2, 1840 – January 11, 1928) was a novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist school, who delineated characters ...

force, constraint), who maintained the belief in fatalism. At the second century of the Hijra, a new movement arose in the theological school ...

reason was not, however, a gesture of fatalism. Confronted with the Antique problem of the future contingents, Leibniz invented the theory of ...

and our knowledge of the past and future, and fatalism. Besides his own work, Ayer produced numerous critical studies of the work of other philosophers ...

#039;s monism entails an ascetic, aristocratic fatalism akin to ancient Stoicism. In Reconsidering Difference (1997), Todd May argues that Deleuze ...

This viewpoint of suffering does not lead to fatalism. It says that people are responsible at every moment to make use their free will to make ...

as the breakdown of positivism and the general fatalism of postwar Europe were also factors. Fascism was a product of a general feeling of anxiety and ...

for his own sin due to the Manichaean fatalism. But, as soon as he became a Christian, Augustine felt the need for protecting the Church from ...

moral defects naturally went hand in hand with fatalism and the notion of fate. Yet, even there, the gods' justice and eventually even their existence ...

Chinua Achebe ( ˈtʃɪnwɑː ɑːˈtʃeɪbeɪ ), born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe (November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013) was a Nigerian novelist ...