Power & Liberty
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We may now sum up the views already- advanced.
Our idea of liberty and necessity diminishes or increases in proportion to our knowledge of the relation of the event to the external world, according to whether the epoch when the event took place is more or less distant in the past, and according to the dependence of the event upon the causes that produced it.
When we examine the actions of a man who is seen to have been attached to the world about him by very intimate ties, whose deeds took plac...e in a far distant period of time, and were produced by causes with which we are familiar, we invaribly conclude that his acts were controlled by an imperious law of necessity, 1 08 THE CONDITIONS OF ACTION. 109 and that, consequently, they had no freedom whatever.
If, on the contrary, we consider the acts of a man who is as independent as he can be of external conditions, whose action has occurred within a recent period, and whose deeds are to us wholly unintelligible, we conclude that necessity had very little to do with the matter, and that there must have been a large degree of liberty.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
We may now sum up the views already- advanced.
Our idea of liberty and necessity diminishes or increases in proportion to our knowledge of the relation of the event to the external world, according to whether the epoch when the event took place is more or less distant in the past, and according to the dependence of the event upon the causes that produced it.
When we examine the actions of a man who is seen to have been attached to the world about him by very intimate ties, whose deeds took plac...e in a far distant period of time, and were produced by causes with which we are familiar, we invaribly conclude that his acts were controlled by an imperious law of necessity, 1 08 THE CONDITIONS OF ACTION. 109 and that, consequently, they had no freedom whatever.
If, on the contrary, we consider the acts of a man who is as independent as he can be of external conditions, whose action has occurred within a recent period, and whose deeds are to us wholly unintelligible, we conclude that necessity had very little to do with the matter, and that there must have been a large degree of liberty.
What to read after Power & Liberty?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Tolstoy Leo Graf to read onlineMoreLess
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