 | Frederic Henry Hedge - Christianity - 1877 - 384 pages
...cause the things idea'd, or the things perceived, but God himself so far as he is a thinking tiling." Part ii. Prop. v. " The order and connection of ideas...determined." Scholium ad Prop. ii. . . .. " Acts arise solely.from adequate ideas ; but passions depend solely on inadequate ideas." Prop. iii. " Joy is the... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - Christianity - 1878 - 384 pages
...material for creating all things from the highest to the lowest grade of perfection. Or, more properly speaking, Because the laws of his nature were so ample...from a greater to a lesser perfection." Affectuum Defmitiones, ii. and iii. " We know nothing, certainly, to be good or bad, except that which conduces... | |
 | Benedictus de Spinoza - Ethics - 1894 - 376 pages
...impulse to talk. Thus experience itself shows, no less clearly than reason, that men think themselves free only because they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes which determine them. It shows, moreover, that the mind's decisions are nothing but its impulses which... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - Immortality - 1899 - 178 pages
...impulse to talk. Thus experience itself shows, no less clearly than reason, that men think themselves free only because they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes which determine them."1 Thus the mind is a part of nature and subject to natural law. It is acted upon... | |
 | George Stuart Fullerton - Knowledge, Theory of - 1904 - 652 pages
...impulse to talk. Thus experience itself shows, no less clearly than reason, that men think themselves free only because they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes which determine them. It shows, moreover, that the mind's decisions are nothing but its impulses, which... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - Philosophy - 1907 - 534 pages
...impulse to talk. Thus experience itself shows, no less clearly than reason, that men think themselves free only because they are conscious of their actions, and ignorant of the causes which determine them. It shows, moreover, that the mind's decisions are nothing but its impulses, which... | |
 | Theosophy - 1918 - 428 pages
...influence it. "Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free, and this opinion consists of this alone, that they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined."28 The inadequacy of their understanding does not consist in their imagination, which is... | |
 | Theosophy - 1918 - 490 pages
...influence it. "Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free, and this opinion consists of this alone, that they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined."2" The inadequacy of their understanding does not consist in their imagination, which is... | |
 | Clinical psychology - 1925 - 708 pages
...teaches that men can moderate their desires more easily than their words7. Men think themselves free because they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes of them. The decision of men's minds are nothing save their desires, which are various according to... | |
 | Evelyn Mary Spearing Simpson - Sermons, English - 1924 - 1102 pages
...experience itself, no less than reason, clearly teaches that men believe themselves to be free simply because they are conscious of their actions, and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined.1 The so-called experience of freedom in choice is an illusion. Our actions are necessitated... | |
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Men are deceived in thinking themselves free, a belief that consists only in this, that they are conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined. 
