The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
The psychological counterpart of determinism: the belief that the future will happen anyway, and there's nothing that anybody can do about it. It follows that it's useless to try and improve the human condition. The concept of fate is not quite so fatalistic: the endpoint may be predetermined, but the routes to it may not. See also determinism.
Events are predetermined by a cosmic purpose, plan, or will. Whatever is foreordained will occur no matter what. Human control is limited to attitude (e.g., resignation to the will of God). Nothing happens by accident or chance.
the doctrine that no choice or act of the individual can affect the fate to which he is destined.
Belief that all events are inevitable because they are determined by a fate or destiny beyond human control.
Fatalism is in general the view which holds that al events in the history of the world, and, in particular, the actions and incidents which make up the history of each individual life, are determined by fate.
a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them
a belief or attitude that one is powerless to change something.
the doctrine that each person's destiny lies beyond any individual effort to change it.
This is the negative attitude which believes there is no solution to a problem or no way out of a dilemma.
The view that all events are predetermined by fate and therefore unalterable by mankind. “Whatever will be will be.” Often fate is described as an impersonal and capricious force.
Fatalism is the view that human deliberation and actions are pointless and ineffectual in determining events, because whatever will be will be.
