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This 5 page paper explores this subject through Richard Taylor's eyes. Fatalism and determinism are compared. The paper examines Taylor's position on fate and concludes that it is reasonable despite some seeming inconsistencies. The film Sliding Doors is used as an analogy. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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destination? Do people have free will? A recent film called Sliding Doors shows what would happen if someone had caught a train, or not. The protagonist, played by Gwyneth Paltrow,
caught a train and so found her lover in bed with another woman. The pair separate, and she cuts and dies her hair, starts a relationship with a man she
met on that fateful day and her life seems to change. The other version shows what would have happened had she missed the train, did not catch her lover cheating
on her and continued to live with him. Although one segment of her life is significantly altered, it seems that in the end, she is in the same place. Both
scenarios do lead to similar conclusions. Fate works that way. No matter what one does, the ultimate outcome is fixed. At least, that is what fatalists think. What is fatalism?
Fatalism is the belief that deliberation and action serve no purpose because the future will be the same no matter what (Honderich 270). Fatalism includes the idea that choices are
idle because they cannot really affect the outcome anyway (270). One should not confuse fatalism with determinism however; determinism is much more flexible. Determinism is a general thesis that
states that all events are reliant on previous events (Honderich 194). In other words, any event is an effect of a prior series of effects (194). There is a cause
and effect relationship in everything; an effect can also be a cause of a future event. While this concept differs from fatalism, both ideas would seem to be juxtapose to
the free will position. An illustration will help to demonstrate this point. Fatalism contends that no matter what one does, he or she will not alter the future. Suppose a
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