Definition of "fatalists" [fatalists]

• Plural form of fatalist. (noun)

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• "The other four were in many respects what we should call fatalists and materialists [232], or in the language of their time Akriya-vâdins, denying, that is, free will, responsibility and the merit or demerit of good or bad actions."
• "The fatalists were the ones who stayed in refugee camps, even more than a decade past their leaving Palestine and with little intention of leaving."
• "The philosophical historians have been again divided according to their different theories, but the most eminent of them are those whom Châteaubriand calls fatalists; men who, having surveyed the course of public events, have come to the conclusion that individual character has had little influence on the political destinies of mankind, that there is a general and inevitable series of events which regularly succeed each other with the certainty of cause and effect, and that it is as easy to trace it as it is impossible to resist or divert it from its course."