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If we know what is good or rational, our knowledge is extended, and our free will restricted [Leibniz]
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Full Idea:
The more perfect one is, the more one is determined to the good, and so is more free at the same time. ...Our power and knowledge are more extended, and our will much the more limited within the bounds of perfect reason.
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From:
Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Pierre Bayle [1702], 1702)
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A reaction:
I like this idea, which seems to me to derive from Aquinas. When I choose to eat and drink each day, or agree that 7+5 is 12, I don't complain about my lack of freedom in the choices. Goodness and reason are constraints I welcome.
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17993
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Laws are relations of kinds, quantities and qualities, supervening on the essences of a domain [Vetter]
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Full Idea:
The laws of a domain are the fundamental, general explanatory relationships between kinds, quantities, and qualities of that domain, that supervene upon the essential natures of those things.
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From:
Barbara Vetter (Dispositional Essentialism and the Laws of Nature [2012], 9.3)
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A reaction:
Hm. How small can the domain be? Can it embrace the multiverse? Supervenience is a rather weak relationship. How about 'are necessitated/entailed by'? Are the relationships supposed to do the explaining? I would have thought the natures did that.
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