20922 | Epicurus showed that the swerve can give free motion in the atoms [Epicurus, by Diogenes of Oen.] |
21671 | Voluntary motion is intrinsically within our power, and this power is its cause [Carneades, by Cicero] |
5709 | The actions of the mind are not determinate and passive, because atoms can swerve [Lucretius] |
23332 | Zeus gave me a nature which is free (like himself) from all compulsion [Epictetus] |
5767 | Rational natures require free will, in order to have power of judgement [Boethius] |
22131 | The will retains its power for opposites, even when it is acting [Duns Scotus, by Dumont] |
19922 | People are only free if they are guided entirely by reason [Spinoza] |
23681 | The first motion or effect cannot be produced necessarily, so the First Cause must be a free agent [Reid] |
3741 | We shall never be able to comprehend how freedom is possible [Kant] |
21053 | The manifest will in the world of phenomena has to conform to the laws of nature [Kant] |
23235 | I want independent control of the fundamental cause of my decisions [Fichte] |
22040 | Freedom is produced by the activity of the mind, and is not intrinsically given [Hegel] |
22075 | Only idealism has given us the genuine concept of freedom [Schelling] |
23111 | If we say that freedom depends on rationality, the irrational actions are not free [Sidgwick] |
20323 | Freedom needs knowledge, the possibility of arbitrariness, and law [Jaspers] |
23333 | The idea of free will achieved universal acceptance because of Christianity [Frede,M] |
23334 | For Christians man has free will by creation in God's image (as in Genesis) [Frede,M] |
23337 | The Stoics needed free will, to allow human choices in a divinely providential cosmos [Frede,M] |
3791 | Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett] |
3794 | Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett] |