Determinism and possibilism in geography pdf

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ADVERTISEMENTS: The ‘determinist’ thesis has it that these frames constitute “a group of forces which act directly on man with sovereign and decisive power,” and which govern “every manifestation of his activity from the simplest to the most important and most complicated”. There are distinct zones which are distributed symmetrically on each side of the equator, great climate-botanic frames, unequally rich in possibilities, unequally favourable to the different human races, and unequally fitted for human development but the impossibility is never absolute even for the races least ‘adapted’ to them and all probabilities are often found to be upset by the persistent and supple will of man.

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The ‘essential cause’ is less nature, with its resources and its obstacles, than man himself and his own nature.” The possibility saw in the physical environment a series of possibilities for human development, but argued that the actual ways in which development took place were related to the culture of the people concerned, except perhaps in regions of extremes like deserts, tundra, equatorial and high mountains. The natural data (factors) are much more the material than the cause of human development. ADVERTISEMENTS: There are no necessities, but everywhere possibilities.

Determinism and possibilism in geography pdf