Abstract

The idea of determinism has a lot of research, but they are made in the historical and scientific context or natural science context. In this article author examines formation the idea of determinism in historical and philosophical key. The author explicates the idea of determinism in mythological and physico­philosophical world view of Antiquity. This study allows a better reveal sources of formation and essence of the idea of determinism. The idea of determinism in Antiquity associated with the mythologeme of fate. The idea of determinism has is reductive explanation. The fate was a compound causes and irresistible necessity. The fate ruled by people and gods. The world was perceived as a theater, people were actors, fate was a playwright. Categories of determinism were preferred. They transformed into fatalism, causality, predestination. The idea of fate underwent hypertrophy. Categories of indeterminism reduced to categories of determinism. Randomness is excluded from the ontological level of the world view in the concept of determinism of Democritus.