Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The doctrine holding that events are inevitably determined by preceding causes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
necessarianism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; determinism.
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- noun metaphysics
necessarianism
Etymologies
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Examples
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Monism necessarily, in the last analysis, carries every act and motive back to the supreme Will and establishes an all-inclusive necessitarianism which is fatal to human freedom; and it therefore excludes sin as an act of rebellion against God.
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He argues that Hume's account of necessity is weaker than “that defended by Collins and before him by Hobbes,” and he goes on to claim that in giving this weaker account Hume is giving the same kind of account that Bramhall and Clarke gave in trying to find a middle way between necessitarianism and the liberty of indifference.
Anthony Collins Uzgalis, William 2009
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In the main article on Leibniz, it was claimed that Leibniz's philosophy can be seen as a reaction to the Cartesian theory of corporeal substance and the necessitarianism of Spinoza and Hobbes.
Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics Look, Brandon C. 2008
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That may be true, but something in it smacks of theistic necessitarianism not mention anthropological historical determinism.
The essential "I" Mike L 2007
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That may be true, but something in it smacks of theistic necessitarianism not mention anthropological historical determinism.
Archive 2007-06-01 Mike L 2007
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It is Leibniz's response to Hobbesian and Spinozistic necessitarianism that is perhaps of greatest interest, for he sought to develop an account of action and freedom that would preserve divine and human freedom.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Look, Brandon C. 2007
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Hobbes and Spinoza, despite their own differences, advanced, or were read as advancing, a number of objectionable and deeply troubling theses which Leibniz (and most of his contemporaries) saw as an enormous threat: materialism, atheism, and necessitarianism.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Look, Brandon C. 2007
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Ethics (1677) was also identified as containing Hobbist doctrines (e.g., materialism and necessitarianism) that led directly to atheism.
Hume on Religion Russell, Paul 2005
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From the perspective of Hobbes's critics the doctrines that lay at the heart of his atheism were materialism, necessitarianism, moral relativism and egoism, and scepticism concerning natural and revealed religion.
Hume on Religion Russell, Paul 2005
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He could sometimes forget the red and thirsty hell to which his hideous necessitarianism dragged him among the wide waters and the white flat lilies of the Ouse.
Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990
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