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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... judges morally right or most ad- vantageous upon the whole . - In both agencies the law of Causation universally prevails . - The fact of the existence of such agents the basis of all inquiries respecting liberty and necessity . : ESSAY ...
... judges morally right or most ad- vantageous upon the whole . - In both agencies the law of Causation universally prevails . - The fact of the existence of such agents the basis of all inquiries respecting liberty and necessity . : ESSAY ...
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... judges morally right , advanta- geous , or proper . The perceptions of these rela- tions are what are usually included under the general term , the understanding , and we may therefore more briefly express the same idea , by saying ...
... judges morally right , advanta- geous , or proper . The perceptions of these rela- tions are what are usually included under the general term , the understanding , and we may therefore more briefly express the same idea , by saying ...
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... judges morally right . These two agencies then , voluntary and moral , are both united in man . As a voluntary agent , when free from compulsion and restraint , he uni- formly acts upon his volition , since here there are no exceptions ...
... judges morally right . These two agencies then , voluntary and moral , are both united in man . As a voluntary agent , when free from compulsion and restraint , he uni- formly acts upon his volition , since here there are no exceptions ...
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... judges right . Hence , as man , the 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 ...
... judges right . Hence , as man , the 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 ...
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... motives , our present question is , whether the hu- man agent can determine his will by the motive which he judges right , advantageous upon the E whole or suitable to the circumstances in which he acts 64 NATURE OF FREEDOM .
... motives , our present question is , whether the hu- man agent can determine his will by the motive which he judges right , advantageous upon the E whole or suitable to the circumstances in which he acts 64 NATURE OF FREEDOM .
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Page 178 - 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 174 - 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 155 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Page 304 - 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 120 - How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth.
Page 29 - 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 276 - A judge, from a regard to justice, and to the duty of his office, dooms a criminal to die, while, from humanity or particular affection, he desires that he should live. A man, for health, may take a nauseous draught, for which he has no desire, but a great aversion. Desire, therefore, even when its object is some action of our own, is only an incitement to will, but it is not volition. The determination of the mind may be, not to do what we desire to do.
Page 123 - 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 187 - Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. " Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Page 58 - ... or wheel. His mind runs along a certain train of ideas : The refusal of the soldiers to consent to his escape ; the action of the executioner ; the separation of the head and body ; bleeding, convulsive motions, and death. Here is a connected chain of natural causes and voluntary actions ; but the mind feels no difference...