Liberty and necessity : in which are considered the laws of association of ideas, the meaning of the word will, and the true intent of punishment /
"I do not pretend to have discovered what was not known before. My aim has been to direct attention to truths we already possess: and if, as I trust it shall appear, that all phenomena of mind are so many facts; that ideas act upon the mind, and not the mind upon ideas; that all their combinati...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Parry and McMillan,
1857.
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| Summary: | "I do not pretend to have discovered what was not known before. My aim has been to direct attention to truths we already possess: and if, as I trust it shall appear, that all phenomena of mind are so many facts; that ideas act upon the mind, and not the mind upon ideas; that all their combinations are formed by their own laws of aggregation, and that the mind cannot command or originate an idea for itself, then all further doubt upon the question of liberty and necessity must cease. If in the following pages I have necessarily employed the term will in the sense in which it is used by writers and in common speech, it was that I might show that the true causes of action existed independently of its agency"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, [9]-165 pages) Also issued in print. |