| 单词 |
fatalism |
| 释义 |
fatalism|ˈfeɪtəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. prec. + -ism. Cf. Fr. fatalisme, It. fatalismo.]
1. The belief in fatality; the doctrine that all things are determined by fate; a particular form of this doctrine.
In early use not distinguished from ‘the doctrine of necessity’, i.e. the doctrine that all events take place in accordance with unvarying laws of causation. In strict etymological propriety, and in the best modern usage, it is restricted to the view which regards events as predetermined by an arbitrary decree.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 6 We shall oppose those three Fatalisms..as so many false Hypotheses of the Mundane System. 1733Berkeley Th. Vision §6 Pantheism, Materialism, Fatalism are nothing but Atheism a little disguised. 1774Fletcher Hist. Ess. Wks. 1795 IV. 20 Fatalism, in which the greatest Infidels unanimously shelter themselves. 1829Lytton Devereux ii. v, You are..a believer in the fatalism of Spinosa. 1876L. Stephen Eng. Thought 18th Cent. (1881) I. 298 Fatalism assumes what necessity excludes, the existence of an arbitrary element in the universe.
2. Acquiescence in the decree of fate; submission to everything that happens as inevitable.
a1734North Lives III. 61 marg., A Turk convinced against fatalism. 1835Thirlwall Greece I. vi. 194 The fatalism of the Greeks was very remote..from the dogma. 1871Morley Carlyle Crit. Misc. (1878) 188 This acquiescence which is really not so far removed from fatalism. |
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