 | John Locke - 1894 - 604 pages
...he has not freedom to be gone. So that liberty is not an idea belonging to volition, or preferring ; but to the person having the power of doing, or forbearing to do, accordmg as the mind shall choose or direct. Our idea of liberty reaches as far as that power, and... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 382 pages
...he has not freedom to be gone. So that liberty is not an idea belonging to volition, or preferring ; but to the person having the power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the mind shall choose or direct. Our idea of liberty reaches as far as that power, and no farther. For wherever restraint... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 424 pages
...freedom to be gone. So that liberty is not i an idea belonging to volition, or preferring; but to the * i person having the power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the mind shall choose or direct. Our idea of liberty reaches as far as that power, and no farther. For wherever restraint... | |
 | Frank Thilly - Philosophy - 1914 - 640 pages
...experience and reason. According to Locke freedom is not an idea belonging to volition or preferring, but to the person having the power of doing or forbearing to do, according as the mind shall _, ._ choose or direct. We cannot say a man's will is free, " it is as insignificant to ask whether... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - Philosophy, Modern - 1928 - 488 pages
...according to preference. To prefer one action to another is to will it. Locke makes emphatic the liberty of the person "having the power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the mind shall choose or direct. ' ' T Granted the moral agent, with the capital opportunities open before him, the... | |
 | Richard Ashcraft - Philosophy - 1986 - 644 pages
...subject 121 Owen, Truth, p. 253. "So that liberty is not an idea belonging to volition, or preferring; but to the person having the power of doing, or forbearing to do" (ECHU, 2 :21, 10). By liberty of conscience, "we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - Philosophy - 1991 - 440 pages
...he has not freedom to be gone. So that liberty is not an idea belonging to volition, or preferring; but to the person having the power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the mind shall choose or direct. Our idea of liberty reaches as far as that power, and no farther. For wherever restraint... | |
 | Marion Smiley - Philosophy - 2009 - 297 pages
...In "The Idea of Power," Locke argues that liberty is not an idea belonging to volition or preference but to the person having the power of doing, or forbearing to do, according to his own choices. The idea of liberty is the idea of power in any agent to do or forbear any particular... | |
 | Lisa T. Sarasohn - History - 1996 - 258 pages
...distinguished between volition and freedom: "Liberty is not an Idea belonging to Volition, or preferring; but to the Person having the Power of doing or forbearing to do, according as the Mind shall chuse and direct." Freedom is not an attribute of the will, which is simply a principle of executing action,... | |
 | Ellwood Johnson - Puritan movements in literature - 2005 - 300 pages
...Locke, must be seen as a separate power that is differentiated from, but contingent to, the others. "Liberty is not an idea belonging to volition . ....person having the power of doing, or forbearing to do . . ." [II: 3 1 7]. Power, volition, and liberty are ideas because we know them only phenomenologically,... | |
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So that liberty is not an idea belonging to volition, or preferring ; but to the person having the power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the mind shall choose or direct. 
