An Essay Concerning the Free Agency of Man: Or the Powers and Faculties of the Human Mind, the Decrees of God, Moral Obligation, Natural Law; and Morality"To reconcile the decrees of God with the free agency of man, is a subject which has received the attention of metaphysicians in different ages of the world: sometimes they have denied the decrees, or explained them as conditional; and sometimes they have denied free agency, or explained it, so as to be no agency at all. The author of this book attempts to to prove that man is a free agent, free, in willing, as well as in doing what he wills; and that this freedom is consistent with the absolute, and eternal decrees of God respecting him. The author has takes a different view of man from what has been taken, and one, which he believes, is more agreeable to nature: he considers, that the human mind has two powers, called the Understanding and the Will. Understanding is the passive power of the mind, and the will is the active power, and the mind always wills with liberty or freedom"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Voluntary Action is an effect of volition , or willing , such as the motion of some part , or the whole of the body . Liberty or Freedom is the Mind beginning , regulating , continuing , and ending its volition without any thing to act ...
Voluntary Action is an effect of volition , or willing , such as the motion of some part , or the whole of the body . Liberty or Freedom is the Mind beginning , regulating , continuing , and ending its volition without any thing to act ...
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The first link is is the Remote Cause , the links between the first and the one next the last , the Intermidiate causes , and the link next the last , the Immediate cause of the motion of the iast link in the chain .
The first link is is the Remote Cause , the links between the first and the one next the last , the Intermidiate causes , and the link next the last , the Immediate cause of the motion of the iast link in the chain .
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I have said above , that we have ideas but of two sorts of action ; viz . , motion and thinking . These in truth , though called and accounted actions , yet , if nearly considered , will not be found to be always perfectly so .
I have said above , that we have ideas but of two sorts of action ; viz . , motion and thinking . These in truth , though called and accounted actions , yet , if nearly considered , will not be found to be always perfectly so .
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But yet , this motion in that solid substance is , when rightly considered , but a passion , if it received it only from some external agent . So that the active power of motion is in no substance , which cannot begin motion in itself ...
But yet , this motion in that solid substance is , when rightly considered , but a passion , if it received it only from some external agent . So that the active power of motion is in no substance , which cannot begin motion in itself ...
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within myself , I put myself into that motion . Such an action is the product of an active power . " These observations , if rightly considered , may help us , in determining what operations of the mind belong to the understanding ...
within myself , I put myself into that motion . Such an action is the product of an active power . " These observations , if rightly considered , may help us , in determining what operations of the mind belong to the understanding ...
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Seite 212 - Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him...
Seite ii - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners.
Seite 158 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Seite 153 - ... whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal...
Seite 80 - But so much I think may be determined in general* •without room for controversy, that whatever is perceived or apprehended by an intelligent and voluntary agent, which has the nature and influence of a motive to volition or choice, it considered or viewed as good...
Seite 58 - The plain and obvious meaning of the words Freedom and Liberty, in common speech, is power, opportunity, or advantage, that any one has to do as he pleases...
Seite 171 - Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts ; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind ; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Seite 150 - And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Seite 138 - The carnal mind is enmity against God, not subject to his law, neither indeed can be;" and in a great variety of passages of similar import.
Seite ii - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, « An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
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| Titel | An Essay Concerning the Free Agency of Man: Or the Powers and Faculties of the Human Mind, the Decrees of God, Moral Obligation, Natural Law; and Morality |
| Autor/in | Nicholas Baylies |
| Verlag | E. P. Walton, October, 1820 |
| Original von | New York Public Library |
| Digitalisiert | 29. Juli 2006 |
| Länge | 215 Seiten |
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