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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 221

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  1. l22Y
  2. his oun faule, in respect oF char ricious habit which hehad
  3. concracted of drintins or samins. Jam. I. 14. Fvery man is
  4. tempred when heis dramn aay of his ovn inst and entised. Dis-
  5. Orderedpastions otanser, hacred, lust, itcher be consequent
  6. (a5 the case ishere puc by T. FT.) and Rou trom deliberation
  7. and election, chey do noc only noc diministr che Faule, bur cher
  8. asgrarace ic, andrender ic much sreater.
  9. (h) Ele calts much otche morives to do, es the morives toforbear,
  10. hon chey work upon and decermine a man, as it a realonable
  11. manmere nomore chan a Tennis- baII, to be tossed eo and Fro
  12. by che Rackets oF che second causes; AS it the willhadno
  13. porverco mooreit selF, buevere meerty passive, lite an arri-
  14. ficiall Povinsay remoored hicher and chicher bytheboles of
  15. ehe Archers, Whostiooe on chis side and on chat. Whacare
  16. mocires buc reasons or discourses Framed by che underttandinz
  17. and Frecl moored by the will 2 NVhac are etre will and the
  18. understandins bur Faculeies oF the same (oul: and whacis li-
  19. berey buca pover resulcins tromthem boch? T0 Pay chacche
  20. Willis derermined by chese motires, is 25 much asto Cay, chaC
  21. ehe Asencis determine d by himselE; IF chere beno necestita-
  22. tion betore che judsmene ofrishereason dorh dictare corhe
  23. will, chenchere is no ancecedent, no extrinsecal necessication
  24. aC aII. (1) AII themorid knows chac wtien the Agentis de-
  25. cermined br himselt, chen ehe effect is determined likemise in
  26. ies cause. Buc iFhe decermined himsell Freely, thenthe effect
  27. is tree. Mocires determine nor nacurally, buc moralli; Which
  28. kind ot decermination may consist wich erue liberey. Bucit
  29. T. FI. tis opinion vereerue, chac the will mere naturally de-
  30. cermined by the Phrsical and special inAuence of extrinsecal
  31. causes, noc onely mocires vere rain, bue reason ic selF, and
  32. deliberation mere rain. No, Paich he, cher are noc vain, be-
  33. cause thev are rhe means. Tes, it chemeans Be superAuous
  34. thev are vain; whac necded such a circuit ot deliberation to
  35. adrise whacis fic ro bedone, when it is already decermined ex
  36. erinsecally, Whac mustbe done.
  37. k) Hc saich, chac the ignorance of the true causes, and their
  38. porveristhe reason. nhy Wejaseribe the effect to liberty: but When
  39. ne seriousty consider the capses of thines, e actnomledse a ne-
  40. EC
  41. cessit

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 221. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0221?run=74