 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 pàgines
...other. For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact. By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting according to the determinations...rest, we may ; if we choose to move, we also may. Now » See NOTE [P.] this hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to every one who is not... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 526 pàgines
...other. For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact. By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting according to the determinations...remain at rest, we may ; if we choose to move, we also nmy. Now • Sec NOTE [F.] this hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to every one... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 628 pàgines
...other. For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact. By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting according to the determinations...universally allowed to belong to every one who is is not a prisoner and in chains. Here then is no subject of dispute. Whatever definition we may give... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - 1853 - 428 pàgines
...liberty," says he, " we can only mean a power of acting or not acting according to the determination of the will : that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may ; if we choose to move, we also may."* Such he declares is all that can possibly be meant by the term liberty ; and hence it follows that... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 pàgines
...then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting aecording to the determinations of the mll; that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may ;...hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to able certainty from their motives, and from the dispositions of the agent ; yet it frequently happens,... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 596 pàgines
...the other. For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact. By liberty, then, we can on]y ° __ is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may ; if we...hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to able certainty from their motives, and from the dispositions of the agent; yet it frequently happens,... | |
 | George Jamieson - 1859 - 280 pàgines
...superficial, and utterly untenable. As regards liberty, our author gives the common definition : ** A power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will." We do not accept this definition. However generally received, we have no hesitation in saying, it assumes... | |
 | Patrick Proctor Alexander - 1868 - 202 pàgines
...plainly nothing but 'the liberty, as to which,' as Hume says, 'there can be no ' subject of dispute ; if we choose to remain at rest, we ' may ; if we choose to move, we also may'— what Hamilton calls ' the liberty of Spontaneity (to Do as we will), a liberty which no Fatalist ever... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1872 - 356 pàgines
...Letter 62, L1fe, Corresp. and Ethics, by R. Willis, MD, p. 393. ' By liberty we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the Will.' — Hume, Essays, n. no. By freedom or liberty in an agent is meant, ' being free from hindrance or... | |
 | George Jamieson - 1872 - 498 pàgines
...superficial, and utterly untenable. As regards liberty, our author gives the common definition : u A. power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will." We do not accept this definition. However generally received, we have no hesitation in saying, it assumes... | |
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By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will; that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may. 
