 | Joseph Haven - 1857 - 612 sivua
...idea of freedom. Liberty, he says, is the power of 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." This extends only to the carrying out our volitions whun formed, and not to the matter of willing or... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 480 sivua
...forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either oft them is preferred to the other. Where either of them...according to his volition, there he is not at liberty, but under necessity." f That these definitions are not perfectly correct will appear hereafter. They... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 444 sivua
...— " 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,...power of the agent, to be produced by him according to bis volition, there he is not at Liberty but under Necessity."1 That these definitions are not perfectly... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - 698 sivua
...AGENT. " 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."' " By the liberty of a moral agent, I understand a power over the determinations of his own will. If,... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - 912 sivua
...AGENT. " 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."3 " By the liberty of a moral agent, I understand a power over the determinations of his own... | |
 | Robert Plues - 1862 - 80 sivua
...remarks again) " 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." It will be here perceived that LOCKE defines Liberty precisely as he defines Will. This... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1866 - 150 sivua
...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. So that liberty cannot be where there is no thought, no volition, no will ; but there may... | |
 | Joseph Haven - 1867 - 614 sivua
...idea of freedom. Liberty, he says, is the power of any agent "to do or for bear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is prefened to the other." This extends only to the carrying out ora volitions when formed, and not to... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1868 - 480 sivua
...idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination of thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred...according to his volition, there he is not at liberty, but under necessity." f That these definitions are not perfectly correct will appear hereafter. They... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1871 - 630 sivua
...that the idea of liberty is the idea of л power in any agent to do or forbear anv particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind,...whereby either of them is preferred to the other." — Locke. As licence implies the principle of liberty, so it implies also a contrary principle of... | |
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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... 
