determinisms
Everything follows necessarily
Determinisms is the plural of determinism, referring to different philosophical doctrines holding that events are necessitated by prior causes.
Various determinisms exist: causal determinism (every event follows from preceding causes), biological determinism (genes dictate behavior), economic determinism (material conditions shape society), theological determinism (God ordains all events).
The debate between free will and various determinisms has occupied philosophers for centuries.
Doctrine of inevitable outcomes
- necessityIndispensable requirement
- causationProduction of effects
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- inevitabilityQuality of being unavoidable
free will · metaphysics · agency · moral responsibility · Spinoza · Laplace · causal chain · mechanism
Cause-effect connection
- laws of natureFundamental rules governing reality
- physicsScience of matter and energy
- NewtonianOf classical mechanics
- clockwork universeReality as divine machinery
predictability · quantum mechanics · chaos theory · initial conditions · trajectories · closed systems · reductionism · mechanistic
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- structuralismAnalysis through underlying systems
- institutionsEstablished organizations or practices
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
socialization · hegemony · ideology · behaviorism · nurture · circumstances
Divinely predetermined fate
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
- foreordinationPredetermined divine decree
- omniscienceUnlimited knowledge state
- electionOrganized public voting
grace · salvation · Augustine · fate · karma · kismet · theodicy · foreknowledge
Genetic trait transmission
- DNAHereditary code molecule
- natureInherent quality or disposition
- innateExisting since birth
- genesUnits of heredity
eugenics · sociobiology · evolutionary psychology · instinct · traits · predisposition · inheritance · genomic
fatalism
Doctrine of inevitable outcomes
- necessityIndispensable requirement
- causationProduction of effects
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
inevitability · free will · metaphysics · agency · moral responsibility · Spinoza · Laplace · causal chain · mechanism · materialism
causality
Cause-effect connection
- laws of natureFundamental rules governing reality
- physicsScience of matter and energy
- NewtonianOf classical mechanics
clockwork universe · predictability · quantum mechanics · chaos theory · initial conditions · trajectories · closed systems · reductionism · mechanistic · biological
Marxism
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- structuralismAnalysis through underlying systems
- institutionsEstablished organizations or practices
conditioning · socialization · hegemony · ideology · behaviorism · nurture · circumstances
predestination
Divinely predetermined fate
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
- foreordinationPredetermined divine decree
- omniscienceUnlimited knowledge state
election · grace · salvation · Augustine · fate · karma · kismet · theodicy · foreknowledge · sovereignty
heredity
Genetic trait transmission
genes · eugenics · sociobiology · evolutionary psychology · instinct · traits · predisposition · inheritance · genomic · behavioral genetics
determinismsfree will
Autonomous choice capacity
indeterminism · libertarianism · voluntarism · self-determination · autonomy
determinismsindeterminism
Doctrine allowing genuine randomness
randomness · chance · unpredictability · contingency · chaos
- genetic determinismHeredity alone shapes traits
- hard determinismAll events causally predetermined
- deterministic chaosUnpredictability from precise rules
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