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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 25

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  2. esire and
  3. liberus
  4. DM. (5
  5. May be
  6. nilede.
  7. acionol
  8. hen ne
  9. lies 8D.
  10. hisonn
  11. e Lore
  12. are not
  13. nEcal.
  14. 1S May
  15. Whien
  16. recria
  17. nece.
  18. a46.
  19. Dpini.
  20. 5 m)
  21. lre
  22. Neen
  23. ne-
  24. enceot
  25. vil
  26. welli
  27. re disre.
  28. 28
  29. spect mo. He WaS diverced (hesarth) by trittes called
  30. busnels. t seems then he actenomlede eth that the nill can be
  31. divertedbys business. thichiboneh said onthe By, iscontrary
  32. Trhinte to themayne, thac the Will is Frec; for free it is not if
  33. any thing but it self can divertit.
  34. b) The very Ars words oE T. FI. his detence, erip ux
  35. chehreeles oF his whole caule, _c.
  36. Fem so? Thad once (saithhe) Resolred. T0 Retolre
  37. pixsuppoleth deliberation. Buc whac deliberation can chere
  38. beoF chac whicb is incricably decermined wichone our
  39. selres ? There is no man doubesbut a man may deliberaie of
  40. nhat himsets Ball do, Wherher thethine beimpessible or not, in
  41. case hebnomnot ofthe impossibility; thongh he cannot deliberate
  42. of rhat another sall dorohim. Therefore his examples of the
  43. man condemned, of the manthat breatheth, andof him that crom-
  44. eth, (becanse the Dnestion is not urbat they sall do) but hat
  45. they sall suffer, are impertinent. T his is soevident, chat L monder
  46. hon hethat was before sorvitty, asto say, my first mordstript up
  47. ivebecles of my cause, and that havine line enonch L mould con-
  48. fure my self, conldpresently beso dull, as not 10 sec his Aren
  49. ment mas too meal 10 suppore so triumphant a langnace. And
  50. hereas heseemeth to beoffended mith Paradores, Uet himthante
  51. the Schoolmen nhose sencelessvritines, have made the createst
  52. number of important Truths seem Paradoxe.
  53. (C) This Argument thatfolle methis nobetter. T0 Relolre
  54. (Saith he) implies a mans dominion over hisactions, and
  55. his actual decerminarion oFhimselF, _c.
  56. If he understand Wtat ic is co Relolre, he hnomes that it
  57. senifies no more then (aster deliberation) eo Will. Flethintes
  58. therefore co Will is to have dominion over his cion actions and
  59. actnallu to determine his oon Will. But noman can determine
  60. his omn mill; for the mill is appetile, nor can a man more deter-
  61. mine his willthananz other appetite; that is, more than he can
  62. determine nhen besall be hunery and mhennot. W hen a man
  63. ishunery, it is in bis choise to eat or not eat; thisistheliberti
  64. ef the man; Butro behunery or not huvery (whichisthat mbicto
  65. Thold to proceed from necessicy) is not in his choise. Besidesthese
  66. mords dominion orer tus omn actions, and decermination

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 25. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0037?run=74