A Review of Edwards's "Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will"

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Henry Philip Tappan. A Review of Edwards's "Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will"

A Review of Edwards's "Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will"

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

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II

III

CONCLUSION

Footnotes

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Henry Philip Tappan

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Now these may be in different degrees, compounded with different degrees of pleasure, considered in itself; and “the agreeableness of a proposed object of choice will be in a degree some way compounded of the degree of good supposed by the judgement, the degree of apparent probability or certainty of that good, and the degree of liveliness of the idea the mind has of that good.” (p. 23.)

Secondly: In reference to objects generally, whether connected with present or future pleasure, the sense of agreeableness will depend also upon “the state of the mind which views a proposed object of choice.” (p. 24.) Here we have to consider “the particular temper which the mind has by nature, or that has been introduced or established by education, example, custom, or some other means; or the frame or state that the mind is in on a particular occasion.” (ibid.)

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