Man's faith in higher powers and God is usually called religiosity, and faith in fate and the predetermination of everything that happens - fatalism. Fatalism is an ideological position and a whole philosophy of being, the essence of which artists, writers, philosophers tried to comprehend.
Fatalism, of course, is a worldview, it presupposes a person's confidence in the inevitability of events, the belief that fate is predetermined from the beginning, and everything that happens is only a manifestation of the originally inherent properties, the space in which a person exists.
Fatalism is also a philosophical view, which, by the way of interpreting objective reality, can be attributed to scientific and even religious.
Fatum as a definition of being
All manifestations of fatalism correlate with the system of human self-determination. Sometimes fatalism means everyday pessimism, a person's uncertainty about the successful outcome of events, a gloomy mood. But still, the main thing is his philosophical understanding, which originated in the days of antiquity. In it, fate is a collectively created, but at the same time, already completed process in the future, where each individual person is only a cog in the mechanism of fate. Fatalism assumes that the fate of an individual being is only part of a single system.
The future is in the past
A person who believes in the inevitability of fate is called a fatalist. Such a person is sure that all events are predetermined and inevitable from the outset. Such a worldview determines the attitude of a person to the issues of his development and attitude to life, the definition of the meaning of his being. Fatalists have their own idea of the flow of time, this is a special perception that allows them to simultaneously represent the present, future and past, but not as an indivisible current, but separately from each other. And the attitude of the fatalist to these segments will be different.
For fatalists, the past is an already completed stage, an experience that can only be analyzed, it remains only in memory and does not affect the present in any way. For the fatalist, the future is practically equal to the present, since, by virtue of his convictions, he believes that it is originally embedded in the universe, and, therefore, exists in advance. But at the same time, the future is hidden from human understanding, a person cannot influence the future, except for the element of foresight, no interaction is possible, this is the position of the fatalist. A real fatalist may regard it in different ways, perhaps he will consider it amenable to influence, but still within certain limits, but most likely, he will treat existence as an unchangeable process of contemplation, perceived exclusively by the mind.
In modern society, the views of fatalists remain unrecognized, they are not taken seriously. This is mainly due to the belief in the spontaneity of processes, in the fact that the possibilities of scientific research are endless.