 | Leslie Armour, Elizabeth Trott - 1981 - 575 Seiten
...in which it is said that liberty is "the 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."9 Young describes this as a "miserable view of freedom."10 For this view involves the notion... | |
 | Olivia Smith - 1984 - 296 Seiten
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 | Humphrey Palmer - 1985 - 232 Seiten
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 | 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1990 - 2250 Seiten
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 | 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... | |
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So 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, whereby either of them is preferred to the other... 
