An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, volume 1
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, volume 1
Locke John
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But the inquisitive mind of man, willing to shift off from himself, asfar as he can, all thoughts of guilt, though it be by putting himselfinto a worse state than that of fatal necessity, is not content withthis: freedom, unless it reaches further than this, will not serve theturn: and it passes for a good plea, that a man is not free at all, ifhe be not as FREE TO WILL as he is to ACT WHAT HE WILLS. Concerning aman's liberty, there yet, therefore, is raised this further question, WHETHER A MAN... BE FREE TO WILL? which I think is what is meant, when itis disputed whether the will be free. And as to that I imagine. 23. How a man cannot be free to will. Secondly, That willing, or volition, being an action, and freedomconsisting in a power of acting or not acting, a man in respect ofwilling or the act of volition, when any action in his power is onceproposed to his thoughts, as presently to be done, cannot be free. Thereason whereof is very manifest. For, it being unavoidable that theaction depending on his will should exist or not exist, and itsexistence or not existence following perfectly the determination andpreference of his will, he cannot avoid willing the existence ornon-existence of that action; it is absolutely necessary that he willthe one or the other; i.
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