 | Gideon Yaffe - 2000 - 194 σελίδες
...directing it, there he is not Free. ... So that the Idea of Liberty is, the Idea of a power in any Agent to do or forbear any particular Action, according...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... | |
 | Patriot Hall - 2004 - 346 σελίδες
...without external control. 6. Liberty, in metaphysics, as opposed to necessity, is the power of an agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, by which either is preferred to the other. Locke. Freedom of the will; exemption from compulsion or... | |
 | Daniel E. White - 2007 - 27 σελίδες
...standard libertarian definition of liberty from Locke's Essay on Human Understanding, "a Power ... to do or forbear any particular Action, according...or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferr'd to the other."15 In Richard Price's Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles... | |
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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... 
