 I think that yesterday was a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier's second "Essais" and see no reason why his definition of Free Will — " the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts" — need...  The Personalist - Pàgina 175editat per - 1924Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Brander Matthews - 1906 - 380 pàgines
...the first part of Renouvier's second Essais and see no reason why his definition of Free Will—the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts—need be the definition of an illusion. . . . My first act of free will shall be to believe... | |
 | William James - 1920 - 534 pàgines
...a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier's second "Essais" and see no reason why his definition of Free Will — "the sustaining of...act of free will shall be to believe in free will. For the remainder of the year, I will abstain from the mere speculation and contemplative Griiblei... | |
 | William James - 1920 - 400 pàgines
...Will —" the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts"—need be the definition of an illusion. At any rate, I will...act of free will shall be to believe in free will. For the remainder of the year, I will abstain from the mere speculation and contemplative Grublei'... | |
 | William James - 1920 - 408 pàgines
...a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier's second "Essais" and see no reason why his definition of Free Will — " the sustaining of...thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts**1— need be the definition of an illusion. At any rate, I will assume for the present —... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1921 - 468 pàgines
...Letters,' i, p. 82), his contemporary memorandum(1870)proclaiming, after reading Renouvier, that his ' first act of free will shall be to believe in free will ' (ibid, i, 147), his father's letter to his brother Henry (ibid, i, 169) (1873), the criticism of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1921 - 482 pàgines
...Letters,' i, p. 82), his contemporary memorandum(1870)proclaiming, after reading Benouvier, that his ' first act of free will shall be to believe in free will ' (ibid, i, 147), his father's letter to his brother Henry (ibid, i, 169) (1873), the criticism of... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen - 1970 - 50 pàgines
...yesterday was a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier's 2nd Essay and saw no reason why his definition of free will — 'the sustaining of...illusion. At any rate I will assume for the present . . . that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will." He resolved... | |
 | W.J. Gavin, J.E. Blakeley - 1976 - 138 pàgines
...a crisis in my life. I finished the first part of Renouvier's second "Essais" and see no reason why his definition of Free Will - "The sustaining of a...act of free will shall be to believe in free will . . . Not in maxims, not in Anschauungen , but in accumulated acts of thought lies salvation . . .... | |
 | Lisa Cole Ruddick - 1990 - 292 pàgines
...James himself at a crucial momei . when he shook off a paralyzing depression by declaring to himself, "My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will."69 The "mood" of the person of character, he writes, is "stern and sacrificial": selfhood is... | |
 | George Cotkin - 1994 - 236 pàgines
...breathlessly recalled the profound and therapeutic effect of the Essais. Renouvier's notion of free will as "the sustaining of a thought because I choose to when I might have other thoughts" was soon transformed into James's motto that "My first act of free will shall be to believe in free... | |
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