2006-07-13 19:39:31 · 9 answers · asked by sabeer 1 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
They are different, but how so is a classic debate. If you believe in "free will", goals shape your destiny. If you believe, as Sartre and Camus, that your options for choosing & pursuing goals are constrained by things like your limited information, your limited ability to understand your environment, and your past experiences, then you only feel like you have free will and feel like you are pursuing "your" goals, where really you are only doing what you must given the circumstance.
In this case, destiny has created your goal and let you feel that it is yours.
Believing in free will however, you would believe your goals create/shape your destiny.
2006-07-14 08:28:52 · answer #1 · answered by bizsmithy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we have many goals in our lives. and maybe each one is a part of the total package but not the destiny itself
2006-07-14 05:44:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person's goal is something they have set themselves. Something they have control over the outcome.
A person's destiny is preordained and therefore something they have no control over the eventual outcome.
At last that's how I understand it.
2006-07-14 02:48:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A goal is something you set for yourself, consciously in this life. Your destiny is something you set and/or agreed to before you were born.
2006-07-14 02:56:33 · answer #4 · answered by wuwei 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is. The goal excludes the outside effects.
2006-07-14 02:42:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually!
2006-07-14 02:47:00 · answer #6 · answered by NONAME 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it wasnt my goal to become paralyzed but its my destiny
2006-07-14 02:47:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. goals are your personal aspirations, that has little or nothing
to do with destiny.You have no way to manipulate your destiny.
Destiny is a close cousin to Fate.
2006-07-14 11:57:19 · answer #8 · answered by anitababy.brainwash 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
usually - no, this means the human tragedy
sometimes - yes, we call it a lucky dog
2006-07-15 11:33:48 · answer #9 · answered by nimrod 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋