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2222 | The doctrine of free will arises from a false sensation we have of freedom in many actions [Hume] |
Full Idea: The prevalence of the doctrine of liberty may be accounted for from a false sensation or seeming experience which we have, or may have, of liberty or indifference, in many of our actions. | |
From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], VIII.I.72) |
330 | No one wants to be bad, but bad men result from physical and educational failures, which they do not want or choose [Plato] |
Full Idea: No one wishes to be bad, but a bad man is bad because of some flaw in his physical makeup and failure in his education, neither of which he likes or chooses. | |
From: Plato (Timaeus [c.349 BCE], 86e) |
2223 | Liberty is merely acting according to the will, which anyone can do if they are not in chains [Hume] |
Full Idea: By liberty we can only mean a power of acting or not acting according to the determinations of the will, …which is universally allowed to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains. | |
From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], VIII.I.73) |
3655 | Hume makes determinism less rigid by removing the necessity from causation [Trusted on Hume] |
Full Idea: Hume's account of the causal relation makes determinism less rigid because there is no longer a logical necessity in the succession of events. | |
From: comment on David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], VIII.II.75) by Jennifer Trusted - Free Will and Responsibility Ch.4 |