fatalism 的词源

1670年代，fatal + -ism 组合形成了一种哲学观点，认为一切事物都是命中注定的。1734年起，“接受所有条件和事件为不可避免的倾向”这一含义开始流行。

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 是一种学说，它并不承认所有事件都是由原因决定的，至少不是按常规理解的那样；相反，它认为无论采取什么措施来阻止，某个预定的结果都会实现。因此，Fatalism 与 necessitarianism 直接对立，后者认为每个事件都是由其前因以机械方式决定的。[世纪词典]