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An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 57
by John Wynne - 1752 - 270 pages
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John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 436 pages
...power which the mind has thus to order the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider it; or to prefer the motion of any part of the body to its rest, and vice versa, in any particular instance : is that which we call the will. The actual exercise...
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Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
...power which the mind has thus to order the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider it; or to prefer the motion of any part of the body to its rest, and vice versa, in any particular instance, is that which we call the Will. The actual exercise...
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Anti-Scepticism: Or, Notes Upon Each Chapter of Mr. Lock's Essay Concerning ...

Henry Lee - 326 pages
...prefer ) the confideration of any Idea ( or Object ) or the forbearance of wh"' fuch confideration, or to prefer the Motion of any part of the Body to its R:ft, and vice ver{a in feveral ii'.ftances. To which I add, for the Explication of that Definition,...
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Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality

William L. Rowe - History - 1991 - 220 pages
...end several actions of our minds, and motions of our bodies. . . . This power which the mind has ... to prefer the motion of any part of the body to its rest, and vice versa, in any particular instance, is that which we call will."9 What is remarkable...
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British Moralists, 1650-1800: Hobbes

David Daiches Raphael - Philosophy - 1991 - 440 pages
...power which the mind has, thus to order the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider it; or to prefer the motion of any part of the body to its rest, and vice versa in any particular instance is that which we call the will. The actual exercise...
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An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Contexts

James Tully - History - 1993 - 354 pages
...will as a power or ability 'to order the consideration of any idea, or the forebearing to consider it; or to prefer the motion of any part of the body to its rest, and vice versa in any particular instance' (2.21.15). The exercise of this ability or power in...
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The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640-1740

Stephen L. Darwall - History - 1995 - 376 pages
...preference: "This Power the Mind has to prefer the consideration of any Idea, to the not considering it; or to prefer the motion of any part of the body to its rest, is that, I think, we call the W///; and the actual preferring one to another, is that we call...
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The History of Mental Symptoms: Descriptive Psychopathology Since the ...

G. E. Berrios - Medical - 1996 - 588 pages
...power that the mind has thus to order the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider it: or to prefer the motion of any part of the body to its rest, and vice versa, in any particular instance, is that which we call will. The actual exercise of...
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Gassendi's Ethics: Freedom in a Mechanistic Universe

Lisa T. Sarasohn - History - 1996 - 258 pages
...Power which the mind has, thus to order the consideration of any Idea, or the forbearing to consider it; or to prefer the motion of any part of the body to its rest . . . , is that which we call the Will. . . . The power of Perception is that which we call 62...
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Philosophical Essays

Antony Flew - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 228 pages
...Bodies .... This Power . . . thus to order the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider it; or to prefer the motion of any part of the body to its rest, and vice versa in any particular instance, is that which we call the Will. (Locke, 236) The second...
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