Determinism, Freedom and Fatalism in Buddhism

Determinism, Freedom and Fatalism in Buddhism

Author Name : Dr. Bimal Chandra Pal

ABSTRACT

Determinism, Freedom and Fatalism are very common and related term in the Buddhist framework of karmic determinism and Nirvana. Change is a universal phenomenon in this world or samsara. Change that we find in respect of state of nature are individual are subject to certain laws. The uniformities discovered in the state of nature as known as causal uniformities.  Causal uniformities go hand in hand with determinism. It relates with Fatalism also. In so far as given a cause the effect for laws and given an affect the cause can be inferred in retrospective. The uniformities are not only true real in the state of nature but are true of human actions  As cause and effect are necessarily related the action and the consequence that necessary fallows and action are also necessary related. So corresponding to causal determinism and state of nature there is a karmic determinism in the field of human action.

  The causal uniformities and the karmic uniformities are different variants of the underline order. Soiled different that the causal uniformities refers to determent changes state of nature whereas the karmic determinism and, so natural order and moral order are expression of underline order. The karmic law is nothing but a form of causal dynamic in human domain. The karmic law is express by the celebrated as is so, so is mean. Every action thus not only necessary reaction in forms of consequences, but nature of the action determines the nature of the consequences sooner or later.        

Key Words: Determinism, Freedom, Morality, Freedom of Will, Cause and Effect, Fatalism.