The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 42

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1. 7. D.
2. A Nd Io eo Fall inhand wich che Ouection; wichiour any
3. Lturther pruems orpretaces. By Liberey, Ido neicher
4. understand a liberer trom Cin, nor a liberer trommilery.
5. nor a liberes Erom serricude, nor a liberey From violence,
6. Duc P understand a libercy from Necesticy or rather trom:
7. Necestitation, ehac is, an univertal immunier From all ine-
8. vicabilier and decerminarion 1o one, whecher it beoF ex-
9. ercise onely whichche Schooles cala libercy ot contradiction,
10. andis Found in Ciod, and in che good and bad Angels, chac
11. is noc a liberer eo do boch 5o0d and erill, buca liberry c0
12. do or nocco dochis orthac sood, ehis orthae erii respe-
13. etively; Or Whether ic be a liberer oF specifcation and exer-
14. cise alto, Whichche Schooles callliberey oEcontrariety, and
15. is Found inmen indomed mich reason and understandine,
16. chacis, 2 IIbercy to do and nocto do, sood and erili, ehis
17. or chac. Thuschecoast beins clcared, _c.
18. P. H.
19. I.N ehie nexe place bo maheth cerrain distinctions of liberri;
20. Land sares, he means not liberey fromsin, nor from servitude,
21. nor frem violence, bul from Nccessur. ccessiration inevita
22. biliir, and determinarion toonc; Ie hadbeen better to defene li-
23. berry chanthus eodistinguiB, for Y understand never the more
24. ahat he means by liberry. And thongh he sayes he means li-
25. berry from Necessitation, get L undenstand not hon such a li-
26. berty canbe, andit is atabine of the ouestion mithont proos;
27. for rhat else is the Duestion vetreen us but mhether (ueh a li-
28. berey he possible or not. Fhereare in the same place other di-
29. sinctions, as a libertu of exercise exely, whichbe calls a liberey
30. ofcontradiction, (namely, of doing not 500d or evill simply, but
31. of doinsthis er that cood, or this er that evill respectivedy.)
32. And a liberty of specification and exercise also, which hecallsa
33. libertrof contrariety, namely, a liberty not onely to do or not
34. 10 do, codor evill; but also todo or not todo, this or 1bat c00d
35. orevit. And michthese distinctions he sares, he clears the
36. coast, mhercas in eruch he darkreth hismeanine, not onely
37. Wit
38. Tumib. 4.

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 42. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0054?run=74