The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 345
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- commeno e deasts as beinq alternate apperite, c. nd not ra
- tiocination, and ihe last act or apperite therein, and rhichis imme-
- diarelr follomed by ebe action, ihe onelu ill thas can betahen no-
- sice of by others, and mtichonel; makerh an action in publick jude
- ment voluntary; T har 1o be free is no more then o do is a man will.
- audis hie mill ro ferbear, and consequemty chat this freedome is the
- Freedome of the man and not of the WWill: T hat the W ill is not free,
- huc subject to chanse by the operation of external causes; That all
- external causes depend necessarily on the first eternat cause Ciod
- Almicher, mho Worketh in us borh eo Will and eo do, by ehe media
- sion of secind causes; Thac sceine neither man nor any thins et se
- can morknpon it sels, it is impossible thar ang man in the framine
- of his oen rill sould coneur mithCod, eitheras on Actor or ac
- an Instrumexr; Thar ehere is rorhine broucht to passe by fortune as
- br a cause, nor any chine mithont a cause or concurrence of casses
- sufficiene robrine it so eo passe, andehat every suchcause, and eheir
- soncurrence de proceed fromthe providence, qood pleasure, and
- monkine of Giod, and consequent ly thonch I do With others call many
- events Contingene; and sayther happen, ret because tlcy had
- every of them their se veral sufficient sanses, and those caules acain
- their former causes, J Cay they happen necessarily; Andrheneh ve
- perceive not vhat they are, yet there areof the most Contincent
- events as necessary causes as of those events whos e causes me per-
- ccive, or else they contd not possibly be foretnoron, as they are by
- him rhat Foretenometh all ebines. On the contrary the Disop maii
- mineth. Thar rhorr ill is freo from nec. sirarion. and in order thereto
- thas the Fudement of the understandine is noc almayes practice
- practicum, nox of sucha narure in it sels as to oblice and determine
- the risteoone, thonch it be erue chat Spontaneiey end determina
- tion ro one may consist togerber; Tbat ehe Will determinethic sels.
- and thare xeternal obines ien they chance the Will do verk upon
- it, noc natur. Iy bur moraliy noc by natural motion bur by moral
- and Mecaphoricat motion; T hat voh.n ehe Will is decermined natu-
- rally. it is not by Cods general infliser ce, whereon depend alsccond
- causes; buc by spccial instmence, Cod concurrine and porrrine som-
- thine into the Wilt, hat the Will henit suspends noc its Act
- malesthe Aet necessat ont decanse it may suspend. and roi assent
- it is not absolutely messary; That sinfut acts prosceed not from
- Goas
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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 345. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0345?run=74