The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 284
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- (284)
- Came man. Is is the Appetice and Wil in man or beast mero
- not the samethine. or that sensual men and beastsdid not delibe-
- rate, and chuse onc rhing before another, in the same manner, that
- rise mendo. Nor can ic besaidof WWills, that one is rational, the
- ether sensirive; but of men. And if it be grante d rhat delibera
- tion is almayes (as it is not) there vere no cause to call men ratio.
- nail more thenbeasts. Por it is manif est by continual experience,
- that beasts do D. liberate.
- (6) The ocher chins obserreable is hiis conclusion, chac it
- is allene tosay, a manis free, and to say, he hath not made an end
- of deliberarine. Wtich contection of his, ovorcurns his whole
- Sructure oFabsolutonecessity. rrhy so? Becaule (saichhe)
- il every Asent be necessicated to aet whac he doth aet by ex-
- erinsical caules, then heisno more Free before he Deliberares.
- Or Whils he Deliberates, then heis afrer. Dut this is a false con-
- Cequenoe; he sould have inferred thus, chen heis no lesse necesi-
- caced, beforeheDeliberaces, then heis atcer; rrhich is true-
- ind ret neverthelesse he is more frec. But talins necessity tobe
- inconsistent mich Liberty (Whiob is the quostion betmeenns) in
- Read of necestirated he purs in not free. And pberefore tosaz, 2
- manis Frec ill he hach made an end ot Deliberarins, is ne con-
- tradiction eo absolure and antecedent necessity. Andmbereas he
- adds presently aster, that L ascribe the necessirarion of a man in
- Trec acts r his oron deliberariem and in indeliberaie acts to his last
- thonches, he mistahes the matter; for laseribe all necessity, to the
- univer(al Series or Order of causes, dependine on the first cause
- eternal. Wrhich the Bistop understandetn, as if Thad said in his
- Phrase to a special inAuence of extrinsecal causes, that is, under-
- standeth ic not at all.
- (C)
- FAsaIn, Liberty (PaicH HC) is an absenceof extrinsecat
- impesiments, but Deliberation dorh produce no neu extrinse.
- callimpedimene; eheretore cicter he is frec atter Deliberation
- Or he WaS nO: free before) Lcannot perceive in these mords
- any rore force os inference, then of so many other mords mhatso-
- ever put rocether at adventure. But be his meaning mhat he Wril-
- Tsay not that deliberation, porducerh any impediments, (for there
- are no impediments, but tothe Action, ist ve are endea vonrine
- 5odo it, mhich is not rill me have done deliberatins.) But durine
- tho
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 284. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0284?run=74