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id: 17147
title: Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil
author: Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von
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  though God is said by it to act according to laws in conforming body and knowledge of God: we only mean that the nature of things does not permit offer here, on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of things has also its rules and reasons, but it is the free choice of God, come at last to the conclusion that God does all, the good and the evil, God is the cause of perfection in the nature and the actions of the the universe, chosen by God for superior reasons, causes men to be in the nature of things that God exists, that he is all-powerful, and that he enforcement of general laws are not the object of a particular will of God. It is true that when one wills a thing one wills also in a sense everything reason; and that because God _called into action all his goodness_ the


id: 35958
title: A Review of Edwards''s "Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will"
author: Tappan, Henry Philip
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  The cause of volition or choice is called motive. choice takes place, the object of that act comes up before the mind in perfectly connected with its moral cause, as a natural necessary effect volition exists when, in the correlation of mind and object, the sense absolute necessity; and the volition itself, as the effect of motive, effects of volition appear by an absolute necessity in relation to him. volition,--are one: it is the relation of cause and effect considered as volition,--are one: it is the relation of cause and effect considered as necessarily caused and determined by the divine volition. when volitions are supposed to exist out of the necessary determination Self-determining will means simply a will causing its own volitions; and cause of volition is the nature and state of the affections or the will, To refer the motive to the divine determination makes volition necessary


id: 35839
title: An Examination of President Edwards'' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will
author: Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
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  soul of man as the efficient cause of its volitions, and motive as regard motive as the efficient, or producing cause of volition, but only Edwards truly says, he includes "_every cause_ or occasion of volition;" Inquiry says, that motive is the cause of volition, he means that it is own volitions, it must cause them by a preceding act of the mind. motive is made to embrace every thing that acts as a cause of volition. absurd to assert that the mind may be caused to act, or that a volition produced or caused by the action or influence of any thing. which a volition is caused to exist in the soul of man, by the action or volition of the mind, as a producing cause is connected with its effect. mind cannot be caused to act, if it is absurd to speak of a produced


id: 37358
title: Determinism or Free-Will?
author: Cohen, Chapman
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  upon human nature, in the same way that we know the forces determining Circumstances determine conduct only when a "free" volition allowed for human self-determination to anyone but the first man. actions and opinions of the free man are not the result of heredity, possibility as it explains choice, provided we allow facts to determine does very clearly point to a determinative power exercised by the human the moral life are real things, Determinism must leave them develop character along desirable lines; and, apart from Determinism, it as "possible." Whether we say that a man ought to do a certain thing, or determining conditions of doing better actions in future. that if action is the expression of character, responsibility is a responsibility determines action, and the phrase loses all meaning and general human action under certain social conditions. that the social medium as a factor determining man''s mental nature has


id: 38621
title: Doctrine of the Will
author: Mahan, Asa
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  Necessity--Doctrine of Liberty, direct Argument--Objection to an Appeal Mistake--Love as required by the Moral Law--Identity of Character among Spirit--Doctrine of Liberty does--God controls all Influences under true--Great and good Men have held the doctrine of Necessity--Last nature of all moral actions, actual and conceivable, so the terms of the idea of moral obligation with the doctrine of Necessity, permit all cases of transgression of the moral law, to choose and to act doctrine of Liberty, and denies moral obligation, or an individual who the doctrine of Necessity affirms, that God has placed sinners under particular kind, a necessity consistent with liberty and moral all sinful acts according to their theory), God requires of them 4. If we suppose all the voluntary acts and states of a moral agent to the moral character of all mental acts and states. which to determine the character of moral acts, the command requiring us


id: 43466
title: Not Guilty: A Defence of the Bottom Dog
author: Blatchford, Robert
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  Human law, like divine law, classifies men as good and bad, and punishes Briefly, then, heredity makes, and environment modifies, a man''s nature. Therefore all laws, human or divine, which punish man for his acts are A great man is a lucky product of heredity and environment. But good environment will make the worst man better than he no man lives in a good environment who has not been taught to think of The free will party look upon a criminal as a bad man, who could be good For the nature of a man--through heredity--is to love life. A man can only try if heredity or environment causes him to want to try, Although we say that man is the creature of heredity and environment, Although we say that man is the creature of heredity and environment, A man "can be good if he tries," but not unless heredity and environment


id: 55761
title: The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods
author: Steiner, Rudolf
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  percepts given to the senses, i.e., the Material World. and Reality, Subject and Object, Appearance and Thing-in-itself, Ego perception the object appears as given, in thought the mind seems to naïve man calls the outer world, or material nature, is for Berkeley world is my idea, I have enunciated the result of an act of thought, Thought contributes this content to the percept from the world of instead of a world-knower, subject and object (percept and self) would object, determined by natural law, is perceived by us as a process of all that is objective would be contained in percept, concept and idea. with external objects the idea is determined by the percept. of action lying outside the real world of our percepts and thoughts, in knowledge, man lives and enters into the world of ideas as effective moral activity depends on knowledge of the particular world


id: 58682
title: Infinity''s Child
author: De Vet, Charles V.
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  Almost with surprise Buckmaster felt Wagner''s words register in his Then Buckmaster read about himself in Wagner''s mind and was certain moment he lowered the barriers of his mind he felt Wagner''s power beat Buckmaster could read very little in his mind Koski had slipped baldly during the past few years but Wagner knew time Koski began to succumb to the ravages of senility, Wagner held the "Try." Oliver spoke softly, but Buckmaster knew that behind that "It came before Wagner was present," Buckmaster replied. But Buckmaster knew that Oliver''s brain worked with "If you could be certain, we wouldn''t have to kill you," Oliver said. "Let me try to kill Wagner. "I didn''t think you trusted me too much," Buckmaster said. Buckmaster knew then that there was little use trying any further His head dropped loosely and Buckmaster knew that Wagner was dead even "They probably wouldn''t hesitate to kill you also," Buckmaster said.


