T 2.3.2.1
SBN 407-8 · cited directly by 1 paper, reached by 1 more through page or section ranges
I BELIEVE we may assign the three following reasons for the prevalence of the doctrine of liberty, however absurd it may be in one sense, and unintelligible in any other. First, After we have perform'd any action; tho' we confess we were influenc'd by particular views and motives; 'tis difficult for us to perswade ourselves we were govern'd by necessity, and that 'twas utterly impossible for us to have acted otherwise; the idea of necessity seeming to imply something of force, and violence, and constraint, of which we are not sensible. Few are capable of distinguishing betwixt the liberty of spontaniety, as it is call'd in the schools, and the liberty of indifference; betwixt that which is oppos'd to violence, and that which means a negation of necessity and causes. The first is even the most common sense of the word; and as 'tis only that species of liberty, which it con|cerns us to preserve, our thoughts have been principally turn'd towards it, and have almost universally confounded it with the other.
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| Purviance 1997 | (T 408) T 2.3.2 (2 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …arantees a substantial self than the feeling of indifference proves that the will is free (T 408). When Hume turns to… |
| Spector 1998 | 2.3.2 T 2.3.2 (8 paragraphs) Citation pattern | ….............69 2.3.1 Personality, Consciousness, and Moral Agency...................69 2.3.2 Recognizing One's O… |
| 2.3.2 T 2.3.2 (8 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …cke's Theory of Personal Identity: A Re-Examination" op. cit., p. 44. 68Ibid, p. 47. ## 2.3.2 Recognizing One's O… |