I'm writing a story that deals with the idea of "everything happens for a reason" / "everything in life has meaning" and I was wondering if there is any name of a philosophy or a movement that thought similar to this - just so I can use it in my story.
Thanks to anyone who can help!
2007-07-22 08:48:31 · 12 answers · asked by DreamOn777 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Fatalists believe that things that are going to happen are going to happen no matter what. Christians (mostly) believe that God has a plan for the world and that's why things happen.
Descartes had the idea of 'the mechanical universe', meaning that the universe was like a big clockwork, all cogs and gears, and anything that happened was a result of something else that made it happen. This became one of the principles of Deism, a religion that believed that there were no 'miracles', that there was a natural and logical cause for everything that happened.
2007-07-22 08:56:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Emergence is a new line of thinking that has just ........ well, emerged! In essence, it is that there are many un-noticed and unknown forces that pressure us to make the choices we do and thereby take us down a path that will lead us to a finish that could be arrived at in no other way.
2007-07-22 16:15:05 · answer #2 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Determinism
2007-07-22 17:50:44 · answer #3 · answered by edd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep;basic philosophy of Christianity...and of people who figure out everything is actually controlled from Sattelites in Outer Space and probably some sort of technology here on this planet as well.... and just because I'm paranoid it doesn't mean that someone isn't out to get me...
2007-07-22 17:16:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius would be the best example of this. Epicureanism....i'm thinking.
But "everything happens for a reason" is not necessarily correlated with "Everything in life has meaning".
2007-07-22 16:18:53 · answer #5 · answered by Nep 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fatalism
2007-07-22 15:50:21 · answer #6 · answered by special-chemical-x 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Predestination
Karma
2007-07-22 15:55:47 · answer #7 · answered by Christopher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God says that in the bible that all things happen for a reason
2007-07-22 15:51:44 · answer #8 · answered by popsicle230 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Non stochastic theory?
2007-07-22 15:51:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most christians believe this.
2007-07-22 15:50:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋