Philosophy

Philosophy In Fate, author Richard Taylor discusses several areas covered under the following sections: Fatalism and Determinism, Fatalism with Respect to the Future and the Past, The Sources of Fatalism, Divine Omniscience, The Story of Osmo, Four Questions, and The Law of Excluded Middle. The first section, Fatalism and Determinism, starts out with a very simple definition of Determinism: “the theory that all events are rendered unavoidable by their causes.” In the end, Fatalism and Determinism can be considered similar enough to have the same meaning and the same theory or philosophy. In the section Fatalism with Respect to the Future and the Past, the actual fatalist is discussed. A fatalist being one who feels that all events are and always have been unavoidable. With this in mind, some fatalists may try to read signs or omens to possible predict future events or to develop a stronger knowledge of the past and how it has and will affect them. Most fatalists consider the future in the same way any average person would consider the past, as concrete, fixed, and unchangeable. Just as we cannot change past events to suit us now, fatalists take the approach fatalism, future, events, past, life, true, god, osmo, things, one, fatalist, end, being, become, way, view, turn, theory, taylor, story, section, same, one’s, middle, idea, fate, fatalists, facts, determinism, you’re, unavoidable, terms, take, somewhat