Moral Causation, Or, Notes on Mr. Mill's Notes: To the Chapter on 'Freedom' in the Third Edition of His 'Examination of Sir W. Hamilton's Philosophy'William P. Nimmo, 1868 - 188 sayfa |
Diğer baskılar - Tümünü görüntüle
Sık kullanılan terimler ve kelime öbekleri
ab extra absurd admit Alexander allege amenable to motive announced answer antecedents argument assert believe called Causationist cause Charlotte Corday cognised conciliation Consciousness of Freedom course criminal criticism deny desire deter determined doctrine of Causation doctrine of Necessity effect eidolon evil existence experience Fatalist Fate Free-will further ground Hamilton hanging held human actions Hume improve our character inference instant internal sanctions involved Kant least logical maniac matter means ment merely Mill seems Mill's doctrine Mill's Nose mind Modified moral distinctions Moral Psychology Moral Responsibility mysterious nature Necessitarian Necessity Non-Ego NOTE-PAGE notion otherwise passage perhaps person philosophical plain plainly point of fact point of view position possible practical feeling Professor Bain punishment question Ravaillac reason recognised regard reply Sceptic sensation sense simply speculative dogma sufficient suppose Theory of Mind thing tion true doctrine ultimate facts utterly Vide volitions
Popüler pasajlar
Sayfa 180 - This objection consists of two parts, which we shall examine separately ; first, that if human actions can be traced up, by a necessary chain, to the Deity, they can never be criminal ; on account of the infinite perfection of that Being from whom they are derived, and who can intend nothing but what is altogether good and laudable. Or, secondly, if they be criminal, we must retract the attribute of perfection which we ascribe to the Deity, and must acknowledge him to be the ultimate author of guilt...
Sayfa 178 - The ultimate author of all our ' volitions is the Creator of the world, who first bestowed ' motion on this immense machine, and placed all beings in ' that particular position, whence every subsequent event, by an ' inevitable necessity, must result.
Sayfa 153 - The true incomprehensibility, perhaps, is that something which has ceased, or is not yet in existence, can still be, in a manner present; that a series of feelings, the infinitely greater part of which is past or future, can be gathered up as it were into a single present conception, accompanied by a belief of reality.
Sayfa 152 - If, therefore, we speak of the mind as a series of feelings, we are obliged to complete the statement by calling it a series of feelings which is aware of itself as past and future ; and we are reduced to the alternative of believing that the mind, or ego, is something different from any series of feelings or possibilities of them, or of accepting the paradox that something, which ex hypothesi is but a series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series.
Sayfa 154 - I think by far the wisest thing we can do is to accept the inexplicable fact, without any theory of how it takes place ; and when we are obliged to speak of it in terms which assume a theory, to use them with reservation as to their meaning.
Sayfa 179 - Being infinitely wise and powerful. Ignorance or impotence may be pleaded for so limited a creature as man, but those imperfections have no place in our Creator. He foresaw, he ordained, he intended all those actions of men which we so rashly pronounce criminal. And we must, therefore, conclude either that they are not criminal or that the Deity, not man, is accountable for them.
Sayfa 89 - The true doctrine of the Causation of human actions maintains, .in opposition to both, that not only our conduct, but our character, is in part amenable to our will ; that we can, by employing the proper means, improve our character ; and that if our character is such that while it remains what it is, it necessitates us to do wrong, it will be just to apply motives which will necessitate us to strive for its improvement, and so emancipate ourselves from the other necessity : in other words, we are...
Sayfa 84 - The other kind, Modified Fatalism I will call it, holds that our actions are determined by our will, our will by our desires, and our desires by the joint influence of the motives presented to us and of our individual character...
Sayfa 83 - It is apt to be forgotten by people's feelings, even if remembered by their understandings, that human actions are in this last predicament; they are never (except in some cases of mania) ruled by any one motive with such absolute sway that there is no room for the influence of any other.
Sayfa 178 - It may be said, for instance, that if voluntary actions be subjected to the same laws of necessity with the operations of matter, there is a continued chain of necessary causes, preordained and predetermined, reaching from the Original Cause of all to every single volition of every human creature. No contingency anywhere in the universe, no indifference, no liberty.