Sometimes during a dispute or a heated discussion, we hear: “You are a fatalist!” For some people, this is similar to an accusation, many are even offended. But let's understand, fatalist - who is it?
From a philological point of view, it’s aboutdestined fate prescribed above and which a person is not able to change, no matter how he wanted. According to the logic of the fatalist, each of us is just a toy in the hands of higher powers, a passive observer, who can only continue to live and accept the events for granted. However, the passivity of observation does not mean that nothing needs to be done. All life activity and all aspirations fit into a certain outline that will lead somewhere.
В этом отношении интересно знать, во что верит fatalist. First of all, in accordance with destiny. This is all clear. But the main thing here is a belief in a pattern and a certain logic (sequence) of events. For the fatalist, there are no accidents, everything that happens to him is a link in one chain, where the actions of people occur with one hundred percent probability. For him, the question does not arise: “Fatalist - who is it?” The question is meaningless, because it determines in this way both the philosophical understanding of the essence of man and the metaphysical transcription of being.
However, when searching for the answer to the questioncan not circumvent the theme of free will. For the fatalist who burns time, there is neither the past nor the present. For him, there is only the future and the expectation of this very future. Personal choice is reduced only to the minimum awareness of what is happening, which can be constructed in a specific situation depending on personal interests. Therefore, the answer to the question “the fatalist - who is this” should be sought both in personal egoism and in the negation of the very principle of choice. Or even more precisely - in the relative acceptance of the possibility of choice in its ideological negation. Life is a choice without choice. Like Vladimir Vysotsky: “The track is only mine, get out of your way!”
The hero of our time is a fatalist.At least, so critically characterize the critics of the main character of the novel of the same name M.Yu. Lermontov. At the same time, Pechorin himself, experiencing his own fate three times in the course of the plot, never thinks about the consequences. He goes ahead like a ram, proving to himself and those around him that no one dares to determine how to live and what to do. In a sense, of course, it is fatalism. But on the other hand, he plays not so much with his own, as with other people's fates, testing the strength of the fatum. A person becomes like God, he does not take on faith everything that happens to him, does not seriously try to change anything, but makes the outside world and the people around him change. And if we remain within the framework of the concept “Pechorin is a fatalist,” then it should be clarified that the Fatum in Lermontov's understanding is the external world, the surrounding reality, a certain “order of things”, unchanging and absolute in its existential essence. But not the soul of man.
Вот почему, отвечая на вопрос «фаталист – кто this, ”one must proceed from the Catholic understanding of free will. Yes, man has the right to choose, but this choice is already predetermined in itself. We do not know our fate and therefore we are free to do what we want. But this does not mean denial of the fate and the will of God. The fatalist simply relies on his own fate. Like many of us.