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Determinist

noun

Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny. Synonyms: fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist.

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... consciousness. This is the only sense in which moral freedom can be understood. (See ETHICS; KANT.) Though the term "autonomy" in its fullest sense implies entire freedom from causal necessity, it can also be used even in determinist theories for relative independence of ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various

... reasoning on happiness is of any use 1 The arguments of the Determinist 2 The arguments for free will 3 Securus judicat ...

— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... only then that the question of morality properly arises. In that case, it is idle to separate the question of motive and consequences, because the character determines the motive and therefore the action. Nobody should have seen this more clearly than Mill as a good 'determinist.' Conduct and character are related as the convex and concave of the curve; conduct is simply the manifestation of character, and ...

— The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) - James Mill • Leslie Stephen

Words linked to "Determinist" : predestinarian, predestinationist, fatalist, necessitarian, determinism