We do not have to believe in genetic determinism to find that argument compelling.

Recent developments in molecular biology have put the final nail in the coffin of traditional genetic determinism.

Some radicals in Russia have rejected this historical determinism, arguing that we should not legitimize authoritarianism by reference to history.

Such statements sounded new to Chinese ears, because they accentuated politics rather than trumpeting the Party s usual emphasis on economic determinism.

Some radicals in Russia have rejected this historical determinism, arguing that we should not legitimize authoritarianism by reference to history. Protests were growing.

In Cultural ecology Marshall Sahlins used this concept in order to develop alternative approaches to the environmental determinism dominant at that time in ecological studies.

General de Gaulle once said There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

The two party moderation thesis makes sense only if the main differences concern redistributive preferences in a simple model driven by an almost Marxist kind of economic determinism.

While the information revolution could, in principle, reduce large states power and increase that of small states and non state actors, politics and power are more complex than such technological determinism implies.

Proprietary rights for commercial firms over the most basic element of an individual s genetic identity should not be enforceable. We do not have to believe in genetic determinism to find that argument compelling.

Maintaining that humans had no free will, Priestley argued that what he called philosophical necessity (akin to absolute determinism) is consonant with Christianity, a position based on his understanding of the natural world.

The biggest challenge for all of us, young and old, next year and for the indefinite future, will result from a different sort of change that is unlikely to respond simply to technological determinism.

External links Determinism in Theology Predestination by Robert M. Kindon in The Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1973 74) The question asked was does God know the future and how we will turn out.

Many influential experts simply inverted the economic determinism that characterized the most primitive Marxists, and assumed that at some point European style politics would develop spontaneously in Russia as a result of the implementation of free market ideas.

Many developments are currently taking place due to the efforts and the determinism of the municipality side by side with the people in order to mitigate the problems that accumulated over the years from central government indifference, civil war, occupation and border wars.

While some forms of biological determinism, such as the belief that race or gender dictates a person s destiny, have been widely rejected, the idea that a person can be genetically predisposed, say, to get into debt, become a ruthless dictator, or vote regularly in elections remains socially acceptable.