An Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting That Freedom of Will Wh
An Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting That Freedom of Will Wh
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— And besides, if the acts of the will are excited by motives, those motives are the causes of those acts of the will ; which makes the acts of the will necessary ; as effects necessarily follow the efficiency of the cause. And if the influence and power of the motive causes the volition, then the influence of the motive deter- mines volition, and volition does not determine itself; and so is not free, in the sense of Arminians (as has been largely shown already) and consequently can be neither... virtuous nor vicious.
The supposition, which has already been taken notice of, as an insufficient evasion in other cases, would be, in like manner, impertinently alleged in this case ; namely, the supposition that liberty consists in a power of suspen- ding action for the present, in order to deliberation. If it should be said, though it be true that the will is under a necessity of finally following the strongest motive, yet it may, for the present, forbear to act upon the motive pre- sented, till there has been opportunity thoroughly to con- sider it, and compare its real weight with the merit of other motives : I answer as follows : Here, again, it must be remembered, that if determin- ing thus to suspend and consider, be that act of the will, wherein alone liberty is exercised, then in this all virtue and vice must consist; and the acts that follow this consid- eration, and are the effects of it, being necessary, are no more virtuous or vicious than some good or bad events, which happen when they are fast asleep, and are the con- sequences of what they did when they were awake.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
— And besides, if the acts of the will are excited by motives, those motives are the causes of those acts of the will ; which makes the acts of the will necessary ; as effects necessarily follow the efficiency of the cause. And if the influence and power of the motive causes the volition, then the influence of the motive deter- mines volition, and volition does not determine itself; and so is not free, in the sense of Arminians (as has been largely shown already) and consequently can be neither... virtuous nor vicious.
The supposition, which has already been taken notice of, as an insufficient evasion in other cases, would be, in like manner, impertinently alleged in this case ; namely, the supposition that liberty consists in a power of suspen- ding action for the present, in order to deliberation. If it should be said, though it be true that the will is under a necessity of finally following the strongest motive, yet it may, for the present, forbear to act upon the motive pre- sented, till there has been opportunity thoroughly to con- sider it, and compare its real weight with the merit of other motives : I answer as follows : Here, again, it must be remembered, that if determin- ing thus to suspend and consider, be that act of the will, wherein alone liberty is exercised, then in this all virtue and vice must consist; and the acts that follow this consid- eration, and are the effects of it, being necessary, are no more virtuous or vicious than some good or bad events, which happen when they are fast asleep, and are the con- sequences of what they did when they were awake.
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