A deterministic worldview can generate great practical initiative, as Calvinism did

Evidence

The classical form of these passages from conception of the world to practical norm of conduct seems to me to be that through which out of Calvinist predestination there arose one of the greatest impulses to practical initiative the world has ever known. Similarly, every other form of determinism has at a certain point developed into a spirit of initiative and into an extreme tension of collective will. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1312

Categorization

• XREF: This is the classic Weber thesis territory — Protestant ethic and the paradox that fatalistic predestination generated worldly activism. Ties to a whole historiography of how belief systems produce conduct.