The Active Faculties Of Human Understanding |
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| The Human Act |
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| The Willed Act |
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| The Moral Act |
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| The Elective Act |
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| The Free Act |
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| The Different Kinds Of Freedom Appropriate To The Human Will |
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Freedom from all violence |
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Freedom from all necessity |
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Freedom from all servitude | ||||
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Freedom from all sin |
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| The Nature Of Bilateral Freedom |
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| The Way In Which Spontaneity Of The Will Acts |
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The first acts of the will, in which the intellect, without making any judgment, presents the object to the will |
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The second kind of acts of the will, in which the intellect presents the object to the will together with a very general judgment about the object's goodness |
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The impulse necessary to stimulate the first kind of affective volitions |
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The impulse needed to move the second kind of affective volitions |
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Can the pure idea of good act efficaciously upon the will, and if so, how? |
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The idea, associated with experiences of good, can act efficaciously on the will |
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How the natural collision between subjective good and evil determines the spontaneous movement of the will |
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Every opiniative good is an object of the will |
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The natural collision between different kinds of subjective good, and the preponderance of some kinds over others |
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| The Metaphysical Question Of Freeom |
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| The Order Of Subordination Among The Different Human Powers |
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| The Limits Of Human Freedom |
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Limits to freedom through lack of choice |
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First limit, which depends upon lack of a reason sufficient to arouse the faculty of free choice |
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Second limit: the lack of two or more good objects from which to make a choice |
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Third limit: the experience of an infinite good |
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Limits to freedom when the practical force is lessened |
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The first limit, dependent upon animal instinct |
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The second limit, posited by human instinct |
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Causes of the weakness of the will in its struggle with instinct |
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The natural, self-assertive pride of instinct, and its growth through development and exercise |
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Weakness of the will in its relationship with instinct |
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Weakness of the will relative to the act of choice |
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Weakness in the command |
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The third limit, posited by the judgment |
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Can human beings be induced necessarily to form a false theoretical judgment? |
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Can human beings be led necessarily to form a false practical-moral judgment? |
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The fourth limit, determined by opinions |
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Fifth limit, determined by virtual and habitual volition |
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