predeterminism
Causally sealed destiny
Predeterminism is the philosophical doctrine that all events, including human actions and choices, are determined in advance by prior causes extending back to the origin of the universe.
Unlike simple determinism, predeterminism emphasizes that the entire course of history was fixed from the beginning: If predeterminism is true, your reading this sentence was inevitable from the moment of the Big Bang.
The view raises difficult questions about moral responsibility and free will.
Predetermined course of events
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- lotLarge amount or portion
fortune · stars · inescapable · inevitability · ineluctable · foreordained · predestined · fixed
Divinely predetermined fate
- foreordinationPredetermined divine decree
- divine willGod's sovereign intention
- providenceDivine protective care
- omniscienceUnlimited knowledge state
election · reprobation · theodicy · supralapsarianism · grace · salvation · sovereignty · decree
Cause-effect connection
- fatalismDoctrine of inevitable outcomes
- metaphysicsPhilosophy of existence's nature
- free willAutonomous choice capacity
- causal chainEvents triggering subsequent events
mechanism · materialism · necessity · physicalism · reductionism
Foretelling of future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- omenProphetic indicator
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- soothsayingForetelling future events
clairvoyance · prescience · foretelling · sibyl · harbinger · seer · prognostication · portent
fate
Predetermined course of events
lot · fortune · stars · inescapable · inevitability · ineluctable · foreordained · predestined · fixed · unalterable
predestination
Divinely predetermined fate
- foreordinationPredetermined divine decree
- divine willGod's sovereign intention
- providenceDivine protective care
omniscience · election · reprobation · theodicy · supralapsarianism · grace · salvation · sovereignty · decree · preordained
causality
Cause-effect connection
- fatalismDoctrine of inevitable outcomes
- metaphysicsPhilosophy of existence's nature
- free willAutonomous choice capacity
causal chain · mechanism · materialism · necessity · physicalism · reductionism
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
soothsaying · clairvoyance · prescience · foretelling · sibyl · harbinger · seer · prognostication · portent · vision
predeterminismindeterminism
Doctrine allowing genuine randomness
contingency · chance · randomness · spontaneity · indeterminacy
predeterminismfree will
Autonomous choice capacity
libertarianism · self-determination · autonomy · agency · voluntarism