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Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
-Terry Eagleton
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Historical Determinism Is A Recipe For Political

Terry Eagleton
Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
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Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. it did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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Now, there is something else interesting here, is this thing called self-determinism and pan-determinism. we have found that there is something stands as a barrier between the ability of a person to be self-determined and the condition he is in, and that is willingness to be controlled. as long as a person will resist control, then everything that comes along which threatens to control him can do so; and thus you have aberration. and until he has a total tolerance of control, he cannot be self-determined or pan-determined.
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The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. it does not assert that they are known to anybody, or predictable by scientific means. but it asserts that the future is as little changeable as is the past. everybody knows what we mean when we say that the past cannot be changed. it is in precisely the same sense that the future cannot be changed, according to metaphysical determinism.
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Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
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