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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 273

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  1. 273
  2. Spontaneous to be alone, Whercas before he had told us that eve-
  3. ry Sponcancous Action is noc Voluncary, because indeliberate,
  4. Nor erery Voluntary Action Spontaneous, if it proceed From
  5. Fear.) Ie thintes he hath espied another contradiction. It is no
  6. monder if speakine of Sponcaneous whichs signifieth nothine else in
  7. Latin (for Fnelist it is not) but thac which is done de liberate ly ir
  8. indeliberately rirhont compulsion. Tscem tothe Bistrop mho hath.
  9. never sivon any definition of that mord, not touse it as he vronld
  10. have me. Andtis casy for him to sive it any signification heplease
  11. as the occasion sall serve, to charee me rmith contradiction. In
  12. rrhat sense l’have used that mordonce, in the same lhave usedit
  13. alvares, callins that Spontane ois which is wichont co action, or
  14. compulsion by terrour.
  15. (6) CNon terellsus, ehac chose actions which follon the last
  16. appetite are Voluntarr, and rhere there is ons onely Appeti. C
  17. chatsthe last. Bucbetore hecoldus, choc Voluntary presuppo-
  18. Seth some precedent deliberation and mediration of what is likely to
  19. follom, bothupenthe doins, and abstainine fromthe sction.
  20. Tbis is a chird controdiction he supposeth he harhfound; but is
  21. acain mistaten. For whenmenare to judse of actions, mhether
  22. they be Voluntary or n. F. they cannot cal that action Voluncary.
  23. mhich follorme d not the last appetite. But thesame men, though
  24. there vere no deliberarion Bail judse there vas, becanse it ou eht
  25. tohave been, and that (rom therime that the Lam mas lenomnto the
  26. rime of the action it self. And therefore bothare true, that Volun-
  27. tary may be virlont, and yet presupposed inthe Lam, not to be
  28. vithont deliberation.
  29. (a) FHe defines Liberey, XTumb. 29. tobe the abserce os
  30. au exrri. sicat impediments to action. And vec in his Wtrole
  31. discourse, he laboureth co make good, chac Whatsoerer is nOE
  32. done, ischeretore noc done, because che AsenE WaS necesica
  33. ced by extrinsecal causes, noc co doit. Are noc exrrinsecal
  34. causes irhich decermine him nocro do ic, extrinsecal impedi-
  35. mentsto Action?) This definirion of Liberty, that ic is che ab.
  36. sence of all extrinsecal impedimenes eo action, he thinkes hebath
  37. sufficiently confured by astine hether the extrinsecal causes
  38. rrhich determine a mannor to do an action. be not extrinsccal im-
  39. pediments to action. It seems by his question he makes no doubt
  40. VH
  41. but

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 273. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0273?run=74