The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 218

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1. (218)
2. ax act os the will; and indeed, as the will is a faculey; er porer of
3. a mans soul, so ro vill is an actof it, accordine to that porver. But
4. asit is absurdly Caid, that to dance is an act altured or drain by
5. fair means ont of the ability to dance; so it is absoto say, that to
6. ill, is an act allured or drann ont of the porverto will, Which
7. poiver is commont, called, the Will. Flomsoever it be, the summe
8. ofhis distinction is, that a voluntary act may be done on compul.
9. sion, that istofay by foul means, bur to ill that, or any act, can-
10. net be but by allurement or fair means. Non secins fair Means.
11. Allurements, and Encicements, produce the action which they de
12. produce, as necessarilys as threatrins and foul means, it follomes.
13. ehat ro will, may be made as necessary as any tlins that is done by
14. compulsion. S0 that che distinction of actus imDeraTUS, and actHS
15. eliCItUS, are buc Voras, aud of no effect aeainst necessitus.
16. N che nexe place follon cvo reason: ot mine omn
17. axan che lame distinction, cheone caken trom che former
18. srounds, chac Election cannor consist ich decermination
19. eo one. Lo chis (he Paich) hehach ansivered already. NO.
20. cruch is Founded upon a Rock. De hachbeen (0 Far From
21. prerailins asainst ic, chac hehach nocbeen ableto Mabe ic.
22. (a) Now axain, hecellsuS. hac F. lection is not orposite to cither,
23. Necesication or Compulsion) Hlc mishc even as well tellus.
24. chac a Rone chroun upvards moores nacurally; Oe, chac a
25. a woman can beravistied mich her omn vill. Consene cares
26. amay che Rape. This is che Aransest liberes chac ever WaS
27. heardot, thac a man is compelled to do whiac he would not,
28. and vec is tree to do whac he will. And chis he tellsusupon
29. etic old Icore, chac he, uho submits to his enemy for fear of déath,
30. chooseth to submit. Buc we hare scen Formeris, chac chis, which
31. he calls compulhon, is not compultion properlys, nor thatna
32. cural decerminarion oF che will eo onc, wtuchis oppotice to
33. crue Liberer. He uho submies co an enemy for larins his
34. life, soch cicher onely councerteir, and rhen there is no willeo
35. submit (chis dissuisc is no more chan a ceppins aside, eo aroid
36. a present blow) Or else he doch cncerely will a submistion and
37. aheu cho ill is chansed; There is a ratt difference berween
38. COm

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 218. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0218?run=74