The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 216
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- choose, toelect; this may be sopped or hindered by ehe inter-
- venins impedimene ofthe understandins, as a cone lyins on a
- table is kepe From ies natural morion, ochermile the will Mould
- hare a kind of Omniporence; Buc the will cannoc be compel-
- led eo an act repusnane toies inclination, as When a ctoneis
- chroun uomards inco cheair, For chacis bochco incline, and
- noctoineline co che same object, at the lame rime ertrich im.
- plies a conrradiction. Theretore eo Cay the will is necesticated,
- iscolar, ehe will is compelled (otar as the willis capable ot
- compulsion. TF a Arono man holdina che hand of a weaker,
- Could chereich kill a chird person, hec quidem vis est. Chis
- is violence, he eaker did noc willine ly perperrare rhe Fact, De-
- cause he as compelled. Buc nom suppose chis strons man had
- the will oF ehe weaker in his pover as ell asthe hand, and
- Thould noc onely incline, buc decermine ic secrecty and insen(t.
- bly eo commit ehis act, is noc che case the same Whrecherone
- rarim Cucretia by Force, a5 Targuine, Or by amaEorY pOTIONS,
- and Masicals Incancacions, noc only allure her, buc necesticace
- her eo lacisty his lust, and incline her eRectua lIV, and dran her
- ineritably, and irresistible co follon him sponcaneousl;, La
- cretia in boch chese condicionsis co be pircied; BuE che lacter
- versonis more suiler, and deserres sreacer punictiment, who
- enderours also so muchas in him lies, eo make Luereria irrisi-
- Stibly parcake oFhis crime. Pdare noc apply ic, buc chus onty;
- Takie hecd hon me detend chole secret and invincible necelHIca-
- tions co eril chouxh sponcaneous and Frec Erom conction.
- Theleare cheix Fastne(eS.
- P. FI.
- NV the negt place, he brincerh tuo arouments acainst distii-
- enistinz betieen beins frec from compulsion, an d free fron ne-
- cissitation. The trst is, thar election is opposite; not onely to coaction
- or compulsion, but also to necessitation or determination to one.
- This is it he mas to proove fromthe bezinnine, and therefore brin-
- Ceth no nem argument to proove it. And to those bronche former-
- ly. Thave already ansivered; And in this plase I deny acain,
- that election is opposire ro either, for rhen a man is compelled (for
- example, ro subject himself to an enemy or 10 dy) he hathstill electi.
- d
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 216. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0216?run=74