-
between events and the
origin of the
universe may not be specified.
Causal determinists believe that
there is
nothing in the
universe that has no
cause or is...
- the
deterministic claim. Hard
determinists reject free will.
Critics often suggest that, in so doing, the hard
determinist also
rejects ethics. The key...
- an
American sociologist and economist. The most
radical technological determinist in the
United States in the 20th
century was most
likely Clarence Ayres...
- an
economic determinist in his book The Pentagon's New Map.
Maurice Rea
Davie describes William Graham Sumner as an
economic determinist,
albeit not of...
-
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15
October 1844 – 25
August 1900) was a
German classical scholar, philosopher, and
critic of culture, who
became one of the...
-
shared not by self-professed
Russian Marxists, who were
mechanistic determinists, but by the
Narodniks and the
Socialist Revolutionary Party, one of the...
- and
throughout the
Western world, in the 1930s.
Under the
influence of
determinist beliefs, the
American craniologist Samuel George Morton (1799–1851),...
-
Environmental determinism (also
known as
climatic determinism or
geographical determinism) is the
study of how the
physical environment predisposes societies...
- po****rized by
Cesare Lombroso in the late-19th century. This was a
biological determinist school of
thought based in
social darwinism,
arguing that
certain people...
-
Leucippus of
Miletus (First half of the 5th
century BC).
Founding Atomist,
Determinist.
Socrates of
Athens (c. 470 – 399 BC).
Emphasized virtue ethics. In epistemology...
