The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 60

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2. dees it spontaneo (ly; End when the Spider males his mebb, he
3. does it spontanconsty, and nt by election. Fhonch L never
4. meant ta oround auy ansver upen the experience of what chil
5. dren foels, mad men, and beasts do yet that rour Lordshio
6. may underst and wbat can be meant by spontancous; and hom it
7. differs from voluntarr. Twill ansiver that distinction and Ben.
8. thac it fichreth acainst ils fello Areuments. Tour Lorastii
9. rherefore is to consider. that al voluntary actistes, mhere the
10. ibine that induccihthe willisnet fear, are calledalso sponta
11. neou, and saidro be dune by a mans omn accord. As nten a
12. man siveth mones voluntarily co another for Merchandise, er
13. outuf affection, he is said te de it of his omn accord, nhicb in
14. Latinis Sponce, and th. reforethe action is spontaneon. Thouch
15. to eive ones moner millins lyto a thecfto avoid billine, or throm
16. it intothe s’ea to avoid dronnins. where the motiveis fear, be
17. pot called spontaneons. But every spontaneons action is not
18. therefore volumary, for voluntary presapposes some precedent
19. deliberarion, that is to say. Come consideration and meditation
20. of uhat is litelyte follom. both upenthe doins and abstainine
21. fromthe action deliberated of, mhereas many actions are done
22. ofour oun accord, and betherefore spontancons; of hicb ne-
23. verrheless, ashethintes, me never consulted, nor deliberated
24. inour selves, at mhonmakine ne question, nox any the least
25. doubt in the morid, bul that rbe thine meare about is seod, ne
26. cat ex walke, or in anger Arike or revile, which he thintes
27. Sponnancons, but not voluntary nor elective actions. And mith
28. such kind of actions he sayes necessitation may stand, but not
29. ith such asare voluntary, and proceed upon election and deli-
30. beration Nom if mate it appear to ron, rhat even tbese acti-
31. ons hich hesares procced frem spontaneity, and hich he aseribes
32. onetys to fooles, childrex, mad mex, and beasts, procced
33. from deliberation andelection, and rhat actions inconsiderato.
34. raß and spentaneons are ordinarily fonnd in those that are by
35. them (elves andmany more, thouche as nise or wiser than ordi-
36. narymen are. Then his Arrument conclndeth, that necessity
37. andelection mas stand regether, which is contrary torhat wbich
38. heintendech by all therest of his Arguments to proove. And
39. Erst pour Lorastips omn experience farnistes jen with preof e
40. nonsh

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 60. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0072?run=74