 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 440 Seiten
...preference of his mind, there he is not free, though perhaps the action may be 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, whereby either of them is preferred... | |
 | Hermione de Almeida - 1990 - 429 Seiten
...power."4 Locke's conception of power as two-fold, as "the idea of a power in any agent to do or forebear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind," presumed volition; it concerned itself not with "original power" but with the "idea of power," and... | |
 | Marion Smiley - 2009 - 297 Seiten
...power of doing, or forbearing to do, according to his own choices. The idea of liberty is the idea of power in any agent to do or forbear any particular...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
...slavery" or "freedom, as opposed to necessity." "Liberty? said the philosopher John Locke, "is the 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... | |
 | Joseph Marie comte de Maistre - 1993 - 458 Seiten
...So what do you want lo say? But the one that yielded La Harpe's comic exclamation is the following: Liberty is [the idea] of a power in any agent to do...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... | |
 | James Tully - 1993 - 354 Seiten
...involuntary. Liberty, like the will, is a power or ability, but 'a power in any agent to do or forebear any particular action, according to the determination...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... | |
 | Henry Sussman - 1997 - 338 Seiten
...power . . . there he is not free, though perhaps the action may be voluntary. ... So that the idea of liberty is, the idea of a power in any agent to...according to the determination or thought of the mind. ... So that liberty cannot be where there is no thought, no volition, no will; but there may be thought,... | |
 | Zbigniew Janowski - 2000 - 180 Seiten
...mind directing it, there he is noifree, though perhaps the action may be voluntary. So that the idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to...mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other ». Cf. notre travail. Cartesian Theodicy. Descartes' Quest for Certitude. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academie... | |
 | Zbigniew Janowski - 2000 - 198 Seiten
...mind directing it there he is not free, though perhaps the action may be voluntary. So that the idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to...whereby either of them is preferred to the other. A century before Locke, the Jesuit theologian Louis Molina defined freedom in almost identical terms.... | |
 | Gideon Yaffe - 2000 - 194 Seiten
...equally follow upon the preference of his mind directing it, there he is not Free. ... So that the Idea of Liberty is, the Idea of a power in any Agent to...or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferr'd to the other: where either of them is not in the Power of the Agent to be produced by him... | |
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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... 
