| William L. Rowe - 1991 - 220 Seiten
...refrain from doing A should one will to refrain: "where either of them [doing A; refraining from doing A] is not in the power of the agent to be produced by...volition, there he is not at liberty; that agent is under necessity."3 Locke's insistence that for your action in doing A to be free it must be that you could... | |
| Richard P. McKeon - 1990 - 308 Seiten
...power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination of thought or the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the...volition, there he is not at liberty, that agent is under necessity."39 Hume finds the basic idea of necessity and causation in the uniformity observable in... | |
| Richard Double - 1990 - 260 Seiten
...that the idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind,...volition, there he is not at liberty: that agent is under necessity. (Locke, 1974 [1690], II, XXI, 8) Hume also sees liberty as the ability to make one's actions... | |
| David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 440 Seiten
...voluntary. So that the idea of liberty, is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any action, according to the determination or thought of the mind,...volition, there he is not at liberty, that agent is under necessity. So that liberty cannot be, where there is no thought, no volition, no will; but there may... | |
| Marion Smiley - 2009 - 297 Seiten
...do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is not in the power of the agent to...be produced by him according to his volition, there is not liberty. . . . The idea of liberty reaches as far as that power and no farther.57 Both of these... | |
| Marion Smiley - 2009 - 297 Seiten
...choices. The idea of liberty is the idea of power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is not in the power of the agent to be produced by him according to his volition, there is not liberty.... | |
| Jack P. Greene - 1992 - 422 Seiten
...power in any agent to do, or forbear, any particular action, according to the determination, or the thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other."7 Revolutionary South Carolinians denned liberty in the same broad way. "By Liberty in general,"... | |
| James Tully - 1993 - 354 Seiten
...the will, is a power or ability, but 'a power in any agent to do or forebear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind,...whereby either of them is preferred to the other' (8). When the agent is not free not to do the action he wills then the action is 'necessary'. Thus... | |
| Joseph Marie comte de Maistre - 1993 - 458 Seiten
...the following: Liberty is [the idea] of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind,...whereby either of them is preferred to the other. [Locke, Essay, Bk. u, chap. XXI, § 8] (Lycée, Vol. XXIII, "Philosophie du XVIIF siècle," art. on... | |
| Steven Schroeder - 2000 - 164 Seiten
...of liberty, which Locke identifies as "a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind,...whereby either of them is preferred to the other." If either doing or not doing an action "is not in the power of the agent," she or he is under necessity,... | |
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