fate, fatality, the doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable necessity, or determined in advance in such a way that human beings cannot change them
Belief that every event is bound to happen as it does no matter what we do about it Fatalism is the most extreme form of causal determinism, since it denies that human actions have any causal efficacy Any determinist holds that indigestion is the direct consequence of natural causes, but the fatalist believes that it is bound occur whether or not I eat spicy foods Recommended Reading: Jordan Howard Sobel, Puzzles for the Will: Fatalism, Newcomb and Samarra, Determinism and Omniscience (Toronto, 1998) {at Amazon com} and Ted Honderich, Consequences of Determinism: A Theory of Determinism (Clarendon, 1990) {at Amazon com} Also see OCP on fatalism and the Master Argument, David J Buller, ISM, noesis, and CE
Belief that situations or societies are out of the control of human intervention May take on positive ("If we just sit back and let this happen everything will be fine ") or negative ("Everything is going to go wrong and there is nothing we can do about it ") aspects Compare against Meliorism Free-Nets: Another form of Community Networks, these entities were originally established usually with the collaboration of pubic libraries The oldest of these networks is the Cleveland Free-Net, formed in cooperation with Case Western University
Fatalism is a feeling that you cannot control events or prevent unpleasant things from happening, especially when this feeling stops you from making decisions or making an effort. There's a certain mood of fatalism now among the radicals. = resignation. the belief that there is nothing you can do to prevent events from happening
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. = resigned. believing that there is nothing you can do to prevent events from happening