Casualism (philosophy)

Casualism in Philosophy is the philosophical view that the universe, its creation and development is solely based on randomness.[1]

Not to be confused with Causalism or Casualism (art).

The concept can be traced back to Epicurus (341 BCE – 270 BCE),[2] however most of the original sources dealing with the concept have been lost and most material today is based on Diogenes Laërtius's work Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 3rd century CE), and copies plus developments by Lucretius (c. 99 BCE – c. 55 BCE) and Cicero (3 January 106 BCE – 7 December 43 BCE).[3]

Casualism assumes the universe came into existence as a random event, and was not created by any omnipotent entity. Followers have therefore often been accused of atheism. Casualism has certain atheistic traits, but none of the ancient philosophers denied the existence of gods.[4] Epicurus postulates that the gods simply stay out of the day-to-day running of the universe and are not even aware of the existence of man.[3][4] The philosophy is based on observations of well-known natural phenomena, such as ocean waves or the random fall of rain drops.[5] Casualism is the concept of randomness as a philosophy.

gollark: No, that's ridiculous. The birds *use* 5G radiation.
gollark: Yes, as computers improve birds will be able to operate more independently but still network together to form a B. I. R. D. superintelligence.
gollark: Not each individual bird, only swarms.
gollark: Yes, the B. I. R. D.s' artificially intelligent distributed control system decided to try and damage humanity, so they used their 5G radiation generators to affect the virus.
gollark: Coronavirus caused birds. It was designed to alter people's memories so they remember B. I. R. D. surveillance drones as if they were real animals, but mutated and became dangerous.

References
  1. "Casualism", Merriam-Webster.
  2. "Kirchner: Kasualismus". Textlog.de. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
  3. "Epicurus", Plato.Stanford
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-05-08. Retrieved 2016-05-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus". Gutenberg.org. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
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