The Will, Its Structure and Mode of ActionAndrus & Church, 1898 - 86 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 60 - ... experience. The Law of Causation, the recognition of which is the main pillar of inductive science, is but the familiar truth that invariability of succession is found by observation to obtain between every fact in nature and some other fact which has preceded It, independently of all considerations respecting the ultimate mode of production of phenomena, and of every other question regarding the nature of "Things in themselves.
الصفحة 10 - ... to tell little more than a few names of places through which he passed. Each has selected, out of the same mass of presented objects, those which suited his private interest and has made his experience thereby.
الصفحة 79 - What is really true for the ordinary consciousness; what it clings to, and will not let go; what marks unmistakably, by its absence, a "philosophical" or a "debauched" morality, is the necessary connection between responsibility and liability to punishment, between punishment and desert, or the finding of guiltiness before the law of the moral tribunal. For practical purposes we need make no distinction between responsibility, or accountability, and liability to punishment. Where you have the one,...
الصفحة 67 - Character is simply that of which individual pieces of conduct are the manifestation ; it is the force of which conduct is the expression, or the substance of which conduct is the attribute.
الصفحة 38 - The essential achievement of the ivill, in short, when it is most 'voluntary,' is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind. The so-doing is the fiat; and it is a mere physiological incident that when the object is thus attended to, immediate motor consequences should ensue.
الصفحة 40 - ... Free-will (arbitrium liberum), and everything connected with this, whether as cause or effect, is called practical. Practical freedom can be proved by experience. For human will is not determined by that only which excites, that is, immediately affects the senses ; but we possess the power to overcome the impressions made on the faculty of our sensuous desires, by representing to ourselves what, in a more distant way, may be useful or hurtful.
الصفحة 69 - And certainly, in the case of Actions in which I have a distinct consciousness of choosing between alternatives of conduct, one of which I conceive as right or reasonable, I find it impossible not to think that I can now choose to do what I so conceive, however strong may be my inclination to act unreasonably, and however uniformly I may have yielded to such inclinations in the past.
الصفحة 60 - ... property ; it has become fit to be the antecedent of an effect called combustion, which partly consists in giving out under certain conditions a given definite quantity of heat. ' We thus see that no new general conception of Causation is introduced by the Conservation theory. The indestructibility of Force no more interferes with the theory of Causation than the indestructibility of Matter, meaning by Matter the element of resistance in the sensible world.
الصفحة 48 - The subject, then, of Psychology is the uniformities of succession, the laws, whether ultimate or derivative, according to which one mental state succeeds another — is caused by, or at least is caused to follow, another.
الصفحة 82 - Die Tat des Verbrechens ist nicht ein Erstes, Positives, zu welchem die Strafe als Negation käme, sondern ein Negatives, so daß die Strafe nur Negation der Negation ist.