 | Herbert Keuth - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...causes" (57). He also supports " the doctrine of liberty" (94 n1, ia), and by "liberty" he means "a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations...to every one who is not a prisoner and in chains" (95). Nowadays this "hypothetical liberty" is usually called "freedom of action." It is compatible... | |
 | Nicholas Churchich - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...negation of freedom. In The Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, Hume defines liberty as 'a power of acting or not acting according to the determinations...will; that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may; and if we choose to move, we also may'.61 He calls this hypothetical liberty. Here he correctly states... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...Definition of human Liberty given by Mr. Hume, cannot be true, when he says, that LIBERTY is the power of acting or not acting according to the Determinations of the Will, which, indeed, is one Species of Liberty, when this Word is made use of in Opposition to bodily Constraint;... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...contain inferences of a like nature. What then, are liberty and necessity? By liberty we mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will, in circumstances consistent with matter of fact and with itself It is universally allowed that nothing... | |
 | Robert Devigne - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 319
...that we are not free: to predict an act is not to compel an individual to act. Liberty is " a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations...remain at rest we may; if we choose to move, we also may."10 Rousseau, Kant, and other romantics criticized this negative conception of liberty. To these... | |
 | Paul Schollmeier - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 17
...belongs to all who are "not a prisoner or in chains." More precisely, liberty of this sort is "a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will" (Understanding^, i. 95, his italics) . But the determinations of our will are, as we have seen, the... | |
 | John W. McDonald - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 251
...freer than to be able to do what he wills. "By liberty," says David Hume, "we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations...hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains. Here, then is no subject of dispute."11 But surely those... | |
 | Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 897
...other. For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact. By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting according to the determinations...hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains. Here then is no subject of dispute. Whatever definition... | |
 | William Flesch - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 272
...other. For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact. By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations...at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may" (Enquiries 1975: 73). We can speak of both will and natural disposition (as does Strawson), and there... | |
 | Stephen Buckle - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 223
...other. For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact. By liberty, then, we can only mean apower of acting or not acting, according to the determinations...remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may.22 Now this hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to every one who is not a prisoner... | |
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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. 
