Essay concerning the free agency of man, or, The powers and faculties of the human mind, the decrees of God, moral obligation, natural law, and morality / Nicholas Baylies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baylies, Nicholas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montpelier : [publisher not identified], 1820.

Summary:

To reconcile the decrees of God with the free agency of man, is a subject which has received the attention of metaphysicians in different ages of the world: sometimes they have denied the decrees, or explained them as conditional; and sometimes they have denied free agency, or explained it, so as to be no agency at all. The author of this book attempts to to prove that man is a free agent, free, in willing, as well as in doing what he wills; and that this freedom is consistent with the absolute, and eternal decrees of God respecting him. The author has takes a different view of man from what has been taken, and one, which he believes, is more agreeable to nature: he considers, that the human mind has two powers, called the Understanding and the Will. Understanding is the passive power of the mind, and the will is the active power, and the mind always wills with liberty or freedom. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).

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