An Essay on Moral Freedom: To which is Attached, a Review of the Principles of Dr. Whitby and President Edwards on Free Will; and of Dr. Brown's Theory of Causation and Agency |
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... animal , remains true to his nature and acts uniformly , when free from compulsion and re- straint , according to his volition ; and hence the nature of animal or voluntary liberty has long been well understood : Man , the moral agent ...
... animal , remains true to his nature and acts uniformly , when free from compulsion and re- straint , according to his volition ; and hence the nature of animal or voluntary liberty has long been well understood : Man , the moral agent ...
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... Freedom of will pe- culiar to voluntary agents . - The nature of liberty and ne- cessity . This distinction threefold , regarding man as an animal , a moral agent , and an intelligent being . SECT . II . - MAN , IN THE EXERCISE OF HIS ...
... Freedom of will pe- culiar to voluntary agents . - The nature of liberty and ne- cessity . This distinction threefold , regarding man as an animal , a moral agent , and an intelligent being . SECT . II . - MAN , IN THE EXERCISE OF HIS ...
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... animal , by acting upon his volition , invariably obtains the greatest possible amount of present enjoyment ; so man , the moral agent , acting upon the law of his mo- ral constitution , and doing what is right , inevit- ably secures to ...
... animal , by acting upon his volition , invariably obtains the greatest possible amount of present enjoyment ; so man , the moral agent , acting upon the law of his mo- ral constitution , and doing what is right , inevit- ably secures to ...
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... liberty , as that of which we are now speaking is usually call- ed , but as it should more appropriately be term- ed animal or voluntary liberty , is enjoyed not only by men in possession of all their faculties , but by idiots and by ...
... liberty , as that of which we are now speaking is usually call- ed , but as it should more appropriately be term- ed animal or voluntary liberty , is enjoyed not only by men in possession of all their faculties , but by idiots and by ...
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... animal liberty , which is common to him with the lowest in the scale of the brutal creation . It is true indeed , as Locke and other writers have justly observed , that this is the only liberty which properly belongs to the will , and ...
... animal liberty , which is common to him with the lowest in the scale of the brutal creation . It is true indeed , as Locke and other writers have justly observed , that this is the only liberty which properly belongs to the will , and ...
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Page 174 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
Page 170 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering: for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind, and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Page 151 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Page 116 - How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth.
Page 283 - Let a man be ever so well persuaded of the advantages of virtue, that it is as necessary to a man who has any great aims in this world, or hopes in the next, as food to life; yet, till he hungers and thirsts after righteousness...
Page 300 - GOD from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 25 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind : and it was BO.
Page 119 - If to break loose from the conduct of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the...
Page 283 - I am forced to conclude that good, the greater good, though apprehended and acknowledged to be so, does not determine the will, until our desire, raised proportionably to it, makes us uneasy in the want of it.
Page 282 - Good and evil, present and absent, it is true, work upon the mind. But that which IMMEDIATELY determines the will from time to time, to every voluntary action, is the UNEASINESS OF DESIRE, fixed on some absent good: either negative, as indolence to one in pain; or positive, as enjoyment of pleasure.