RE: Brainstorm
February 17, 2016 at 6:10 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2016 at 6:11 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatalism
Quote:[...]Fatalism generally refers to any of the following ideas:
The view that we are powerless to do anything other than what we actually do. Included in this is that man has no power to influence the future, or indeed, his own actions. This belief is very similar to predeterminism.
An attitude of resignation in the face of some future event or events which are thought to be inevitable. Friedrich Nietzsche named this idea with "Turkish fatalism" in his book The Wanderer and His Shadow.
That acceptance is appropriate, rather than resistance against inevitability. This belief is very similar to defeatism.
(my emphasis)
Fatalism generally refers to the idea that we don't have a choice.
If there's no free will it doesn't mean that we don't have a choice, it just means we don't have a free choice.
EP from underneath the above hide-tag Wrote:[...]if you don't believe in free will, you can't possibly think anything is in your control - since you don't have any free will.
I do have control just as I do have a will. It's just that my will, my control and my choices aren't free. They're still there and I still have it/them.