Rejecting a rationalist and perhaps deterministic view of human kind since human-behaviour is quite unpredictable.

Consequently, Goethe embraced neither teleological nor deterministic views of growth within every organism.

At the same time, the deterministic view could be used against many conservative principles, particularly those that stress personal responsibility.

But the wide dissemination of Luther's deterministic views of salvation, with which he totally disagreed, forced him to make his own position clear.

He adhered to a deterministic view of fate, but nevertheless sought a role for personal freedom in thought and action.

He adopts the same deterministic view of history that Tolstoy himself expresses in the narrative chapters.

This led to a fairly deterministic view of mankind.

This open letter criticized Wilson's notion of a "deterministic view of human society and human action".

Her fiction contrasts deterministic, imperialistic views of history with one that accepts the possibility of change for those displaced by colonialism.

The deterministic view of history was used by Marxist regimes to justify the use of terror.