The Problem of Fate  

Oleh:

Simmel, Georg

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory, Culture & Society vol. 24 no. 7 (Dec. 2007), page 78-84.
Topik: event ¦ fate ¦ life ¦ meaning ¦ subject
Fulltext: 78.pdf (198.85KB)

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In this piece Simmel claims that the concept of fate has been neglected in philosophy. However, he argues that an understanding of this concept becomes indispensible as soon as we take the objective structure of life as our problem. Any understanding of ‘fate’ requires or presupposes a subject that contains an ‘inner tendency’ to make mere causal events take on a meaning – a ‘restrospective teleology’. As such, ‘fate’ signifies that human life has a special course, an objective path, that has on overall significance and which is realized or disturbed by external reality. In regarding something as ‘fate’ we overcome the arbitrary relationship that exists between events and the real meaning of our lives. However, Simmel points out that something can become our fate only once it has been taken up into an intrinsic attunement to life and fate only determines the individual life course because an individual pre-selects events that possess an affinity by imparting a meaning to them that allows them to become ‘fate’.

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