Liberty and Necessity: In which are Considered the Laws of Association of Ideas, the Meaning of the Word Will, and the True Intent of PunishmentParry and McMillan, 1857 - 165 σελίδες |
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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 82 - The faculty of the Will is that faculty or power or principle of mind by which it is capable of choosing : an act of the Will is the same as an act of choosing or choice.
Σελίδα 156 - This self-love or desire of happiness, is the primary cause or reason of all acts of preference or choice which fix supremely on any object...
Σελίδα 86 - I desire it may be observed, that, by the will, I mean nothing but the internal impression we feel, and are conscious of, when we knowingly give rise to any new motion of our body, or new perception of our mind.
Σελίδα 89 - Now what is attention ? It is not a reaction of the organs against the impressions received ; it is nothing less than the will itself, for no body is attentive without willing to be so, and attention at last resolves itself into the will.
Σελίδα 89 - This element is the will ; one moment before we were in a state of judging and knowing ; now we are in a state of willing. I say willing, and not doing ; for, as to judge that a thing should be done, is not to will to do it, so likewise to will to do it, is yet not to do it. To will is an act, and not a judgment ; but it is...
Σελίδα 82 - Whatever is a motive, in this sense, must be something that is extant in the view or apprehension of the understanding, or perceiving faculty.
Σελίδα 82 - It must be observed in what sense I use the term " good ;" namely, as of the same import with " agreeable." To appear good to the mind, as I use the phrase, is the same as to appear agreeable, or seem pleasing to the mind.
Σελίδα 86 - might not be confined to desiring merely, but might will also, the concurrent action of many of the higher intellectual faculties is required ; motives must be weighed, compared, and judged. The decision resulting from this operation is called the Will
Σελίδα 89 - That act is an effect in relation to the power of willing, which is its cause ; and this cause, in order to produce its effect, has need of no other theatre, and no other instrument, than itself. It produces it directly, without...
Σελίδα 82 - SOME may possibly object against what has been supposed of the absurdity and inconsistence of a self-determining power in the Will, and the impossibility of its being otherwise, than that the Will should be determined in every case by some motive, and by a motive which (as it stands in the view of the understanding) is of superior strength to any appearing on the other side ; that if these things are true, it will follow, that not only the Will of created minds, but the Will of God himself is necessary...