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fatalism

The view that the future is fixed, irrespective of our attempts to affect it. Seldom held as a philosophical doctrine, fatalism has been influential as an attitude towards life (as in Stoicism) and as a literary theme (for example, in the Oedipus legend).



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He needed all her assistance and all her loyalty in these new conjunctures his fatalism had already accepted.
We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand).
In doing so, he had simply obeyed the laws of his nature, and we have good reason to believe that he was, to some extent, a fatalist, but of an orthodox school of fatalism withal, that led him to rely upon himself and even upon Providence.
 
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