fatalism 的詞源

命運主義是一種哲學學說，認爲所有事情都由命運決定，起源於1670年代，由 fatal 和 -ism 組成。意思是“接受所有條件和事件不可避免的傾向”，始於1734年。

Fatalism is a doctrine which does not recognize the determination of all events by causes, in the ordinary sense; holding, on the contrary, that a certain foreordained result will come about, no matter what may be done to prevent it. Fatalism is thus directly opposed to necessitarianism, according to which every event is determined by the events which immediately precede it in a mechanical way. [Century Dictionary]

Fatalism 是一種學說，不承認所有事件都由普通意義下的原因決定； 相反，它認爲某種預定的結果將會發生，無論採取什麼措施都無法阻止。因此， Fatalism 直接與 necessitarianism 相對立，後者認爲每個事件都是由機械方式直接前導事件決定的。[世紀詞典]