Question
Differentiate between Determinism and Possibilism.
Solution
Determinism | Possibilism |
(i)It refers to the point of view supporting environment control on human action. | (i)It refers to the physical environ-ment for humans to exploit it for their benefits. |
(ii)The determinism generally emphasis on human as a passive agent influenced by the environmental factors determine their attitude, decision-making and life style. | (ii)The emphasis is firmly placed on human rather than nature. |
(iii)The scholars who supported deter-minism were Greek and Roman scholars. | (iii)Lucian Febvre and Vidal de la Blache advocated and developed system-atically the school of possibilism. |
