item: #1 of 8 id: 17147 author: Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von title: Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil date: None words: 190264 flesch: 64 summary: It is this difficulty that has caused two parties to spring up, one of the _predeterminators_, the other of the supporters of _mediate knowledge_. _Metaphysical evil_ consists in mere imperfection, _physical evil_ in suffering, and _moral evil_ in sin. keywords: able; absolute; absurdity; abuse; accepted; accessary; accidental; accordance; account; acknowledged; action; active; acts; actual; adam; admirable; admit; advantage; affairs; aid; aim; air; alleged; altogether; ancient; angels; animals; answer; answering; antecedent; anterior; apollo; apparent; appearances; appropriate; approve; aquinas; arbitrary; argument; aristotle; arnauld; article; ask; assume; assumption; atoms; attention; attributes; augsburg; augustine; author; authority; avail; aware; bad; beasts; beautiful; beauty; 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sides; simple; sin; single; sins; slight; small; socinians; sole; solution; sophism; sort; soul; sound; source; space; speaking; special; species; speed; spinoza; spirit; spontaneity; spring; square; state; statement; stoics; straight; strange; strong; stronger; subject; substance; substantial; success; succour; sufferings; suffices; sufficient; sundry; superior; supreme; system; tendency; terms; theodicy; theologians; theological; theology; thereto; things; thinking; thomas; thomists; thought; throw; time; title; total; treatise; triumph; trouble; true; true god; truth; truth god; turn; understanding; unhappy; uniform; union; united; unity; universal; universe; unknown; useless; usual; vague; verities; vice; view; virtue; virtuous; vol; volitions; voluntary; water; way; ways; whereof; wherewith; wicked; wickedness; willed; willing; wills; wisdom; wise; wish; wishes; wit; wonder; words; work; world; worse; worthy; writers; writings; wrong; years; zoroaster cache: 17147.txt plain text: 17147.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 35839 author: Bledsoe, Albert Taylor title: An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will date: None words: 68402 flesch: 63 summary: To begin then;--if motive is merely the condition on which the mind acts, and exerts no influence in the production of volition, it is certainly improper to say, that it _gives rise to volition_. The younger Edwards himself has spoken of an _efficient, producing_ cause, in such a manner as to show that he regarded them as convertible terms, p. 46. keywords: absurd; absurdity; act; acting; action; active; activity; acts; advocates; affections; agency; agent; agreeable; antecedent; argument; author; body; cause; certain; change; choice; choosing; circumstances; clear; common; conceive; conclusion; condition; connexion; consciousness; consequence; contends; contradiction; contrary; controversy; day; definition; deny; desire; determined; determining; different; dispute; distinction; divine; doctrine; edwards; effect; efficient cause; event; evidence; evident; existence; experience; external; fact; false; far; feeling; follows; force; foreknowledge; foreknown; free; freedom; future; god; good; great; greatest; ground; hand; human; idea; impossible; impression; inconsistent; indifference; infinite; influence; inquiry; kind; known; language; law; liberty; light; logic; long; man; manner; matter; maxim; meaning; means; mind; moral; moral necessity; motion; motive; natural; nature; necessary; necessitarian; necessity; object; occasion; opposite; order; particular; passion; passive; perfect; philosophical; philosophy; place; point; positive; power; present; president; president edwards; principle; prior; proceeds; producing; production; proposition; purpose; question; real; reality; reason; regard; relation; respect; result; scheme; section; self; sense; series; soul; state; strength; strongest; subject; sufficient; supposition; system; terms; thing; time; true; truth; universe; view; virtue; virtuous; volition; way; words; work; world; younger cache: 35839.txt plain text: 35839.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 35958 author: Tappan, Henry Philip title: A Review of Edwards's "Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will" date: None words: 63327 flesch: 59 summary: : it is the perfect and fixed impossibility of certain laws and principles of being, leading to certain volitions; and is contrasted with _physical inability_, which is the established impossibility of a certain volition, producing a certain effect. So we may say, that _moral ability_ is the certain and fixed connexion between certain laws and principles of being, and volitions; and is contrasted with _natural_ ability, which is the established connexion between certain volitions and certain effects. keywords: absolute; absolute necessity; absurdity; account; act; acting; action; acts; actual; affections; agent; agreeable; agreeableness; antecedent; apparent; argument; cause; certain; certainty; chain; change; characteristic; choice; circumstances; common; conceive; conception; conduct; connected; connexion; consciousness; consequences; contingent; contrary; correlation; course; creation; definition; degree; desire; determination; determined; determining; different; direction; disagreeable; distinction; divine; doctrine; edwards; effect; endeavour; events; evil; example; existence; external; fact; faculty; fixed; following; force; foreknowledge; form; free; freedom; future; general; god; good; great; greatest; ground; hand; human; idea; immediate; inability; inclination; individual; infinite; influence; knowledge; known; law; laws; liberty; lies; man; manner; meaning; means; mere; metaphysical; mind; moment; moral; moral necessity; motive; natural; nature; necessary; necessary cause; necessary connexion; necessitated; necessity; nisus; obey; object; opposed; opposite; opposition; order; particular; passion; perception; perfect; phenomena; philosophical; philosophy; physical; place; point; possibility; possible; power; present; principle; proper; quality; question; rational; reason; reasoning; reference; relation; relative; religion; required; respect; respecting; responsibility; right; second; self; sense; sensitivity; sequents; soul; space; state; strength; strongest; subject; substance; supposable; system; terms; thing; time; true; truth; unable; universal; view; volition; want; way; willing; wills; wisdom; word; wrong cache: 35958.txt plain text: 35958.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 37358 author: Cohen, Chapman title: Determinism or Free-Will? date: None words: 32377 flesch: 57 summary: There can be no other meaning than the capacity to create an ideal presentment of the penalties attaching to certain actions. Of course, punishment in the sense of the infliction of pain merely because certain actions have been committed, no Determinist would countenance. keywords: absence; absurd; acting; action; acts; agent; alternatives; application; argument; assumption; bad; belief; better; capacity; case; causation; certain; chance; character; choice; circumstances; clear; complete; conception; concerned; conditions; conduct; consciousness; consequences; consideration; conviction; course; deal; definition; deliberation; desire; determination; determined; determinism; deterministic; different; direction; discussion; education; end; environment; essential; events; existence; experience; expression; external; fact; factors; feeling; forces; form; free; freedom; future; general; good; great; greater; habit; hand; heredity; human; human nature; identical; illustration; important; indeterminist; individual; influence; instance; intelligible; intentional; issue; james; judgment; kind; knowledge; language; large; law; laws; left; liberty; life; little; long; man; manner; material; matter; meaning; means; medium; mental; mere; mind; moment; moral; morality; motives; natural; nature; new; operation; opinion; order; organism; origin; particular; past; people; person; phenomena; philosophy; physical; place; point; pointed; position; positive; possibilities; possibility; possible; power; powerful; praise; present; principle; problem; process; professor; psychological; psychology; punishment; qualities; question; reaction; real; reason; regret; relation; reply; responsibility; responsible; result; right; room; science; scientific; self; sense; significance; simple; social; society; statement; states; strength; strong; study; subject; terms; testimony; theory; things; thinking; thought; time; true; truth; universe; use; value; view; volition; voluntary; way; words; work; world; writer; wrong cache: 37358.txt plain text: 37358.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 38621 author: Mahan, Asa title: Doctrine of the Will date: None words: 50854 flesch: 63 summary: A _decisive_ character exists, where the Will acts in harmony with propensities strongly developed. It presents but one scale by which to determine the character of moral acts, the command requiring us to love with all the heart. keywords: ability; absolute; account; act; action; acts; affirmations; agency; antecedent; apparent; argument; assumption; bearing; bible; cases; cause; certain; certainty; chapter; character; choice; circumstances; conceivable; conceive; conduct; consciousness; consequents; consideration; control; conviction; course; creature; degree; dependence; desire; determinations; determined; different; direction; distinction; distinguished; divine; doctrine; edwards; effects; elements; entire; equal; error; event; example; exercise; existence; external; fact; faculties; false; feelings; following; form; free; fundamental; god; good; great; greatest; ground; guilt; hand; harmony; heart; human; idea; identical; important; impulse; individual; influence; instances; intelligence; intensity; intention; internal; kind; know; knowledge; law; liberty; love; man; meaning; mental; mere; mind; mixed; moral; moral law; moral obligation; motive; natural; nature; necessary; necessitarians; necessity; obedience; objection; objects; obligation; opposed; opposite; opposition; particular; perfect; phenomena; philosophy; place; possible; power; present; principle; propensities; proposition; purpose; question; real; reality; reason; regard; relation; respect; responsible; result; right; science; self; sense; sensibility; servitude; sin; spirit; standard; state; strongest; subject; system; terms; theory; thing; time; treatise; true; truth; universal; view; virtue; volitions; voluntary; wit; words; wrong cache: 38621.txt plain text: 38621.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 43466 author: Blatchford, Robert title: Not Guilty: A Defence of the Bottom Dog date: None words: 67041 flesch: 77 summary: There were two kinds of men--good men and bad men. If bad teaching, and evil surroundings make bad men; then good teaching, and good surroundings will make good men. keywords: able; act; action; acts; ages; aid; aked; ambition; ambitious; ancestors; ancestral; ancient; anger; angry; animals; answer; ape; argument; atavism; atavistic; average man; bad; bad environment; bad man; beads; bear; beasts; beauty; belief; best; better; birth; black; blame; blood; blue; body; book; bottle; boy; boys; brain; breed; breeding; broken; brothers; bunyan; campbell; care; case; causes; cells; century; certain; chain; change; chapter; character; chesterton; children; choice; christian; church; claim; clear; clever; codes; common; conditions; conduct; conflict; conscience; control; country; course; creatures; crime; criminal; cruel; darwin; day; dead; deal; death; defective; degenerate; descent; desire; developed; different; disease; divine; dog; drink; drunkard; earth; education; effects; effort; england; english; environment; evidence; evil; evil environment; evolution; example; experience; eyes; fact; family; father; fault; fear; feel; feelings; fellow; fire; flowers; food; foolish; force; form; free; french; friend; generation; genius; girls; glass; glory; god; golden; good; good environment; good men; great; guide; habit; half; hand; hard; hate; healthy; heart; hell; help; heredity; hicks; home; honest; honour; hope; human; idea; ideals; ignorance; ignorant; imagination; immoral; impossible; individual; industry; influences; inherited; inherits; innocent; instance; instincts; john; justice; kind; knowledge; labour; lady; late; laws; lead; lesson; lies; life; like; little; live; living; london; long; look; love; lydston; macbeth; making; man; manhood; matter; mean; memory; mental; mere; millions; mind; misery; mistake; mixed; money; moral; morality; mother; murder; muscles; music; musical; nations; natural; nature; necessary; need; nelson; nerve; new; noble; number; old; order; origin; outside; painter; parents; parts; past; people; person; physical; pity; place; plain; play; pleasure; point; poison; poor; poverty; power; practice; praise; present; pride; primitive; prisoner; propensities; public; punished; punishment; pure; qualities; quality; question; rabbit; race; reason; record; religion; religious; respect; responsible; result; rich; right; robinson; rose; rule; sailor; sake; savage; school; second; self; selfish; sense; set; shakespeare; shall; shame; shark; sick; simple; sin; sisters; skull; slums; smith; sober; social; society; soul; sound; special; speech; sport; state; stock; stream; strength; strong; stronger; struggle; subject; superior; sure; surroundings; sweet; system; talent; teachers; teaching; temperament; terrible; theory; thieves; things; think; thomas; thought; thousands; tide; time; training; tramp; tree; tribe; trouble; true; truth; try; turn; type; unfortunate; unjust; use; useful; value; variation; vice; vicious; victim; virtue; way; weak; wealth; white; wicked; wife; wild; wills; wise; wish; women; words; work; working; world; worse; wrong; years; young; youth cache: 43466.txt plain text: 43466.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 55761 author: Steiner, Rudolf title: The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods date: None words: 91131 flesch: 64 summary: The fancy-picture of other perceptual worlds, made possible by other senses, has nothing to do with the problem of how it is that man stands in the midst of reality. Vice versa, it may happen that men with moral imagination lack technical skill, and are dependent on the service of other men for the realisation of their ideas. keywords: able; absolute; abstract; accordance; account; action; active; activity; acts; actual; addition; agent; aim; analysis; animal; answer; appearance; argument; assertion; attempts; attention; author; aware; basis; beings; best; blind; body; book; brain; case; causes; certain; character; clear; cognition; cognitive; colour; common; complete; concept; conceptual; conclusion; concrete; conditions; conduct; connected; connection; consciousness; content; contrast; correct; corresponding; course; critical; day; definite; demands; desire; determinate; determination; determined; determining; developed; development; different; disposition; doubt; dream; edition; eduard; effect; ego; elements; end; epistemological; error; essence; essential; ethical; ethics; evolution; example; existence; existing; exists; experience; explanation; expression; external; external world; eye; fact; factor; feeling; fichte; field; following; follows; forces; form; free; freedom; fundamental; gain; general; genus; given; god; good; greater; ground; hand; hartmann; having; help; higher; hold; human; human nature; hunger; idealism; ideas; identical; illusion; imagination; immediate; important; independent; individual; individuality; influence; instance; instincts; intensity; intuition; intuitive; judgment; kant; kind; knowing; knowledge; known; later; laws; level; lies; life; like; limits; line; little; living; long; longer; love; making; man; manner; material; matter; meaning; means; men; mere; metaphysical; method; mind; modern; moment; monism; moral; moral world; morality; motion; motive; natural; nature; naïve; necessary; necessity; need; new; nexus; non; number; object; objection; observation; observed; open; order; ordinary; organisation; organism; organs; original; outside; pain; particular; perceive; perceiving; perceptible; perception; percepts; perceptual; perceptual world; personality; phenomena; philosophical; philosophy; picture; place; pleasure; point; position; possibility; possible; power; present; presuppositions; principle; priori; problem; process; processes; produce; progress; proposition; pure; purpose; qualities; quantity; question; reach; real world; realisation; realism; reality; realm; reason; reference; reflection; regard; related; relation; remains; rest; results; right; satisfaction; science; scientific; second; self; sensations; sense; separate; short; shows; single; soul; sound; space; special; sphere; spiritual; spiritual world; spring; stand; standpoint; starting; state; striving; study; subject; subjective; sum; surplus; system; task; theory; things; thinking; thought; time; total; transcendental; tree; true; truth; turn; ultimate; unconscious; understanding; unfree; union; unity; universal; universe; valid; value; view; viz; vol; von; way; words; work; world cache: 55761.txt plain text: 55761.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 58682 author: De Vet, Charles V. title: Infinity's Child date: None words: 10852 flesch: 86 summary: Almost with surprise Buckmaster felt Wagner's words register in his mind. Buckmaster had seen the results of Wagner's sadism in the past. keywords: able; arm; armies; arms; better; body; buckmaster; campaign; certain; chance; city; clifford; contact; control; course; creatures; cuff; dead; death; die; door; dream; duluth; entity; eyes; fact; far; floor; force; free; gamoll; general; good; government; great; guards; hand; head; help; hope; inner; koski; left; life; little; long; longer; lost; man; matter; memories; men; mind; moment; need; old; oliver; olson; pain; past; plague; power; right; room; second; sense; shot; simple; strength; strong; substance; thing; thought; time; ultimate; underground; use; voice; wagner; way; weapon; woman; words; world cache: 58682.txt plain text: 58682.txt