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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 125

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  1. 6. 32. Bur to consider this mistaken part oF Liberty righe, Would art
  2. one be a Chanselins, because he is leis determined, by rise Considerations.
  3. than a erisc Nan. Is ie orth che Name OF Erccdom to be at liberty t0
  4. play che F0ol, and dram Shame and Misery uxon a ManS sclE: IE wanc oF
  5. restrainero chuse, or to do the worle, De Liberer, true Liberer, madmten
  6. and FoOIS are the onIY Frce men: Dut Vet, P think, no Body would
  7. chuse eo be mad For the Patse of such Liberer, but he that is mac
  8. alreadr.
  9. 5. 33. Bur though che preserence ot the Mind be alivars decermined by
  10. the appearance ot Crood, greater Cood; vet the Person Wrhohas the Por
  11. ex, in Which alone consilts libertr to act, or not to act accordine to luet
  12. preserenco, is nevertheless trec, such derermination abridges nor That POW.
  13. er. HIC chat has his Chains bnocked oH, and the Prison- doors set open 10
  14. tim, is perfectlr at liberey, because he may cither o0 or Cay, a5 he best
  15. litres; thouoh his preserenee be derermined to stay by the darknels oF the
  16. NigHE, or illness ofthe Weather; Or Want ot ottier LOcoinz. HC Ceales
  17. nOFeO Be free; though that which at that time appears to him the orca-
  18. ter Grood absolutelr determines his preserenee, and matces him stay in His
  19. Prison. Tharerather made use of the Word Preference than Choice, t0
  20. exprelsthe aet ol Volition, becaule choice is ot a more doubttul lignifica
  21. tion and borderins more uxon Desire, and (0 is reterred co things re-
  22. more; Whereas Volition, or the AC oF Willine, signities nothing property,
  23. but the actual producins ot Lomethino that is voluntarr.
  24. 8. 34. The next thins to be considered is, IF our Wills be determined
  25. by Cio0d, Ilou it comes to pass thac Mens Wills carry them so contrarily,
  26. and consequently some ol them co wrhat is sivil: And eo this I PaY, chaF
  27. the various and contrary choices, hat Men matre in the Wortd; doc not
  28. argue, chat they do noc all chuse Oood; Dut that che same thins is nOE
  29. fo0dto everr Man. Nere all the Concerns oF Man terminated in this
  30. Lise; irhy one pursued Scudy and Rnomledse, and another Plawtins
  31. and Ftencins; ertr one chose Furury and Debaucherr, and another So-
  32. brieer and Riches, ould not be, becaule everr onc ot thele did not pur-
  33. suc hisomn (Tappiness; but because their PTappinels lar in different thines:
  34. And theretore eiras a righe Ansiver of chePhysician to hisPatient, chathad
  35. Sore Fyes. IF rou have more Plcature in the Paste of Winc, than in the
  36. ule ot vour Sistt, Winc is so0dfor you: but il the Pleasure of Secins De
  37. greater to vou, chantharot Drinkins, Wine is naugHE.
  38. 6. 35. TheMrind has a different relictr, as Welt asthe Palate; and vou
  39. will as truictessy endeavour to delioht all Men with Riches or Glory.
  40. (rrhich y et lome Men place their Flappinels in,) as zou rould to
  41. fatissie all Mens Punser irh Cheese or Lobsters; Wrtrich, thougl
  42. very agrecable and delicious tare to lone, are to others extremet
  43. nauseous and oftentire: And mans People mould ith Reason preser
  44. the sripins of an hungry Belly, to ehiole Distres, irtrich are a Peast
  45. Io Others. HTence it was, Ichink, thac che Philosophers oF old did
  46. in vain enquire, Whether summum bonum consisted in Riches, or
  47. Boditr Deliohes, or Virtue, or Contemplation: And they mioht have a5
  48. reasonabls dispured, Whether che best Relist vere to betound in Apples,
  49. PlumbS, OT NuES; and have divided themselres into Sects upon it. FOr
  50. 25 plealant Fastes depend not onthe things themselres, but their aorecq.
  51. bleness to this or that particular Palate, Wherein there is great variety:
  52. Sothe grearest Fappinels consilts, in the havins those chines which pro-
  53. duce the crearest Pleasure, and the absence of thole irhich cause any di
  54. Aurbance, aer pais, irhich 10 disterent Ben ace vecys ditterene ctiime
  55. CMaP.
  56. Porver.

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 125. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0141?run=74