Destiny

The destiny indicates at the present moment the future history of an human being such as she is written by a force or an authority higher than the man (possibly divine) in the deterministic designs of the world.

In these designs, he is often regarded as very difficult - even impossible - with a man to escape his destiny, at least in his broad outlines. The concept of destiny is thus opposed to that free will.

Arts

The topic of the Destiny, and more particularly that of the desperate attempts of the man to escape from it, inspired many artistic works through the ages.

Literature

The principal difference between the drama and the Tragédie is the presence or the absence of the destiny.

Catalog of films

  • Vision of Escaflowne is a Anime Japan board whose control of the destiny is one of the Intrigue S.
  • Lost, the missings, televised series where a plane is crushed on an island lost in the peaceful one. Begin for the survivors an initiatory and philosophical search of which one of the principal goals is to answer the question: Did the destiny bring them here?

Greek and Roman mythology

The Destiny, or Destiny, is a blind, inexorable divinity, resulting from the night and chaos. All the other divinities were subjected to him. The skies, the ground, the sea and the hells were under its empire: nothing could change what it had solved; in a word, the Destiny was itself this fate whereby all arrived in the world. Most powerful of the gods, Jupiter, could bend the Destiny in favor neither of the gods, nor of the men.

The laws of the Destiny were written of any eternity in a place where the gods could consult them. Its ministers were the three Parques: they were charged to carry out its orders.

One represents Jupiter having under his feet the terrestrial sphere and holding in his hands the ballot box which contains the fate of the mortals. It carries a surmounted star crown and a sceptre, symbol of its sovereign power. To make hear that it did not vary, the old ones appeared it by a wheel which a chain fixes. There is, in top of the wheel, a large stone and, bellow, two horns of plenty with points of javelin.

In Homère, the destinies of Achilles and Hector are weighed in the Jupiter balance and, as that of the last carries it, its death is stopped: Apollon withdraws the support to him that it had granted to him hitherto.

They are the blind men stops of the Destiny who made guilty so much of mortals, in spite of their desire to remain virtuous: in Eschyle, for example, Agamemnon, Clytemnestre, Jocaste, Oedipus, Étéocle, Polynice, etc, cannot withdraw itself from their destiny.

Oracles alone could foresee and reveal ici-bas what was written with the book of the Destiny.

Religion

In religion, the destiny is similar to the hello or the Providence. It exists there several designs of the destiny in the various Churches.

In the Catholic religion, the faith is necessary to the hello, but that requires at the same time charity works. These doctrines are called the Augustinisme.

In the religion calvinist, the faith is necessary to the hello but works are not considered useful. It is there also question of Prédestination.

In the orthodoxe religion, the official doctrines are the Semi-pélagianisme, which puts many emphase on works.

See too

Suggestions of bliography

  • George Balan, the destiny , Editions Musicosophia

  • Marcel Conche, Time and destiny , Editions Puf
  • Imre Kertész, To be without destiny, Pocket 10/18
  • New Review of Psychoanalysis, the destiny, Editions Gallimard

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