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Page 314
... freedom would have to be rejected as a vain and impossible suggestion . Consequently , if we would save freedom , no other way remains but to consider that the existence of a thing in time and therefore according to the law of physical ...
... freedom would have to be rejected as a vain and impossible suggestion . Consequently , if we would save freedom , no other way remains but to consider that the existence of a thing in time and therefore according to the law of physical ...
Page 315
... Freedom of the will , independence of causal neces- sity , is implied by this possibility . The assumption is as necessary as the moral law , in connection with which alone it is valid . Freedom and duty reciprocally imply each other ...
... Freedom of the will , independence of causal neces- sity , is implied by this possibility . The assumption is as necessary as the moral law , in connection with which alone it is valid . Freedom and duty reciprocally imply each other ...
Page 505
... freedom first arose among the Greeks . And therefore they were free . But they , and the Romans likewise , knew only that some are free , not man as such . They therefore had slaves . Their whole life , and the maintenance of their ...
... freedom first arose among the Greeks . And therefore they were free . But they , and the Romans likewise , knew only that some are free , not man as such . They therefore had slaves . Their whole life , and the maintenance of their ...
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David Hume | 39 |
An argument for limited theism | 57 |
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