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Author Fox, Michael Allen, author

Title Fate and life : who's really in charge? / Michael Allen Fox
Published Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages)
Contents What Is Fate? -- Fate's Global Reach -- The Language of Fate -- Fateful Arguments -- A Tool for Social Control -- Attitudes toward Life
Summary "Fate is a powerful part of the way people think and talk about the universe and their place in it. It drives the disturbing visions of terrorists and cultists, energizes the followers of social movements, and endlessly inspires pundits, futurologists, utopian and dystopian theorists, and storytellers of all types. Talk about fate has no limits that restrict it to a particular age, society, or type of worldview. Careful investigation reveals that fate continually reasserts itself across cultures and generations, giving it both ancestral weight and modern relevance. That fate and fateful ideas have undergone some reprehensible transformations and misuses cannot be disputed. But this manuscript reveals fate's more positive side. Fate may be thought of just as the fixed conditions of life, and the imponderable way certain unanticipated occurrences alter the path we follow over time. When we look at fate in this way, we find that the idea is both supported by experience and suitable for integration into views of life that preserve our sense of agency and purpose. Fate is about the most basic things-the beginning and ending and the ultimate comings and goings of life. It embraces the fortunes and misfortunes that are our lot. Thinking about fate teaches us about who we are, how we see the world, and our evaluation of the possibilities of life. The argument of the book is supported by a multicultural, global perspective on the topic, and is elaborated with the use of abundant literary, philosophical, and everyday examples."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Allah
COVID-19
Daoism
God
Holocaust
Stoicism
amor fati
apocalypse
caste
causation
chance
character
choice
climate change
contingency
culture
death
destiny
determinism
doomsday
eschatology
existence
facticity (givenness)
fatalism
fortune
freedom
genetics
history
human condition
inevitability
justice
karma
kismet
life
luck
meaning
mythology
predictability
providence
race
religion
responsibility
self-fulfilling prophesy
sex
social control
suicide
superstition
totemism
universe
war
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 05, 2024)
Subject Fate and fatalism.
PHILOSOPHY / Essays
Fate and fatalism
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780228020455
022802045X
9780228020448
0228020441