 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - Страниц: 566
...former provide no adequate grounds for inferring the latter. By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will. All actions are necessarily determined; but what we call voluntary actions are necessarily determined... | |
 | Don Garrett Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Utah - 1996 - Страниц: 289
...writes: [W]hat is meant by liberty, when applied to voluntary actions? ... we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will;... this hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to every one who is not a prisoner and in... | |
 | William Charlton - 1998 - Страниц: 198
...everything's necessary? American: Well, you see what he says here. 'By liberty we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will: Girl: But what does that mean? What are the determinations of the will? American: He tells you in the... | |
 | B. Thyer - 1999 - Страниц: 290
...compatibilism, and his work has the virtue of demystifying free will: By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations...to every one who is not a prisoner and in chains. (Hume, 1748/1902) Hume's classic compatibilism is also a classic case of ignoring the more complex... | |
 | Rocco J. Gennaro, Charles Huenemann - 1999 - Страниц: 410
...confusions about Descartes's theory, as well as Hume's. Hume, for instance, def1nes liberty as "a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will." 42 If we think only of spontaneity and indifference — as Kenny does —it is difficult to classify... | |
 | John Bricke - 2000 - Страниц: 290
...analysis of the legitimate notion. 'By liberty', he writes, 'we can only mean a paxer of acting or nor acting, according to the determinations of the will;...at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may' (£9f). This 'hypothetical liberty', as he calls it, 'is universally allowed to belong to everv one... | |
 | Oswald Hanfling - 2003 - Страниц: 284
...follow with a certain degree of uniformity from the other By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting, according to the determinations of the will:...at rest. we may; if we choose to move, we also may. (95l Liberty, in this proper sense, is 'universally allowed to belong to every one who is not a prisoner... | |
 | Alfred Ayer - 2000 - Страниц: 152
...responded from our _, infancy? i_ This is not to deny us any form of liberty. Hume defines it as 'a power | of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will' * (E 95), and this is something that we commonly possess. Not only that, ? but Hume is able to argue... | |
 | Richard Freadman - 2001 - Страниц: 416
...arrives at the following famous but puzzling formulation: 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 may.59 As Godfrey Vesey points out, this could mean one of two things: "according to how the will determines'... | |
 | Miguel A. Badía Cabrera - 2001 - Страниц: 358
...which would have to be characterized as unconditional, that is, freedom uncaused and unpredictable: "hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong...to every one, who is not a prisoner and in chains" (EHU, 95). 1 think Hume l should ask this: lf God has made men such that in their free choices they... | |
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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. 
