The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 231
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- e adds, thar it chere beno necessicarion besore the fudemene
- ofrishe realon doch dictace co ehe Will, chen chere is nO AN-
- EecedOnE nOr Exrrinsecal necestitation aE aII. YCay indecdthe
- effcet is not produced before the last dictate of the understandine;
- but TCay not that the necessiry mas not before; he lnoms I (ay it is
- Frem eterniey. Wben a C annon is plante d acainst a Wrall. thongh
- the batrery benot made rill the bullet arrive, ret the nec. ssity vas
- present al the wbile the bullet mas coing toit, is che rail stood
- still; andis it stipt amay, the birtins of somembat el se mas necessa-
- ry and that anteceaenly.
- (1) (AIThe NorId knons, chac when the ABent is dexer-
- mined By himselE, then the effect is derermined likewise in iEs
- caule. Tes, rhenthe Acent is d termined by himsels, thenthe
- effeet is derermine d litemiseinis cause, and so any thine else is
- what he willhave it. Dut nothine is determined by it self, nor is
- there any man in the rorid that huth auy Concepiion ansverable
- to those Wrords. But Mocires (he Cars) decermine noc naturally
- buc MoraIIV. This alsois insignificant, for alt Mocion is X a
- tural or Supernatural. Moral motion is a meer rord, mithous
- any Tmacinarion of the mind correspondent toir. Thave beard
- men talle of a Morion in a Coure of Fustice; perbaps this is it
- Which he means hy Moral Morion. But certainty when the toncue
- of the Fnde, and chehands of che Clertes are thereby movid,
- the Mlorion is Xatural, and proceed trom nacural causes. Which
- canses also, vere Natural Mocions of the toneve of tbe Advocate.
- And whereas headds, thar is elis vere rrue thennoc orels Mo-
- tires, but reason ic selF, and deliberation vere vain, it hach been
- sufficiently ansvered before that therefore theyare not vain, be-
- cause by them is produced the effect. I must alsonote that often
- times in citins my opinion, he purs in instendof mine, tbose terms
- ofhis omn. Which upon alt occasions T complain of for absurdity; as
- herehemakes meto (ay, that mbich L didnever say, Special in-
- Auence ot exerintical canses.
- (R) He Caich, chac rhe ienorance of the true causes, and their
- Porver, is the reason rhy e ascribethe effect to Liberty hut
- When me serionsty consider the causes ofrhines, e actenontedee a
- nocessiey. No sucto chins, buc jusFRE CONETaEY.) I ho under.
- stand the Auchors whieh he readethupon this point nobetter then
- H
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 231. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0231?run=74