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Encyclopedia > Necessitarianism

Necessitarianism (Principle in metaphysics) — Necessitarianism is determinism applied to human beings: the doctrine that human beings do not have free will but are determined in their actions by antecedent, external causes. Necessitarianism is thus opposed to libertarianism regarding human action.


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The Doctrine of Necessity Examined (4759 words)
(3) When I ask the necessitarian how he would explain the diversity and irregularity of the universe, he replies to me out of the treasury of his wisdom that irregularity is something which from the nature of things we must not seek to explain.
Secondly, the necessitarian may say there are, at any rate, no observed phenomena which the hypothesis of chance could aid in explaining.
Then, there is the very fact the necessitarian most insists upon, the regularity of the universe which for him serves only to block the road of inquiry.
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