 | Jerome A. Anderson - 1892 - 206 pages
...is the Will ? Locke* declares that: " That power which the mind has to order the consideration of an idea, or the forbearing to consider it, or to prefer the motion of any part of the body or its rest, and vice versa, in any particular instance, is that which we call the will. It signifies... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 pages
...it evident," says Locke, " that we find in ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue or end, several actions of our minds and motions of our bodies,...by a thought or preference of the mind ordering."* So far I have been describing certain facts of my inner experience; I have now to mention one great... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 360 pages
...it evident," says Locke, " that we find in ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue or end, several actions of our minds and motions of our bodies,...by a thought or preference of the mind ordering."* So far I have been describing certain facts of my inner experience ; I have now to mention one great... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1898 - 376 pages
...power, it is next shown that we find within ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue or end, several actions of our minds, and motions of our bodies,...doing such or such a particular action. This power is the will. Its particular exercise in any direction is volition or willing.2 The forbearance of that... | |
 | Vida Frank Moore - 1901 - 470 pages
...«/., II, Ch. XXI, §4. says : " We find in ourselves a power to begin or to forbear, continue or end several actions of our minds and motions of our bodies,...to order the consideration of any idea, or ... the motion of any part of the body ... in any particular instance is what we call will." * These powers... | |
 | Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles - 1902 - 432 pages
...reflection on the operations of our mind. "We find in ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue or end several actions of our minds and motions of our bodies,...doing such or such a particular action. This power is what we call will" (On the Human Understanding, Bk. II, Ch. 21, § 5). Before entering into the... | |
 | Nathan Elbert Truman - 1904 - 110 pages
...Ibid., II, Ch. XXI, §4. says : " We find in ourselves a power to begin or to forbear, continue or end several actions of our minds and motions of our bodies,...to order the consideration of any idea, or ... the motion of any part of the body ... in any particular instance is what we call will." ' These powers... | |
 | Johnston Estep Walter - 1915 - 198 pages
...on its own "operations." He says: "We find in ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue or end several actions of our minds, and motions of our bodies,...doing or not doing such or such a particular action." And: "I thought it worth while to consider . . . whether the mind doth not receive its idea of active... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1917 - 332 pages
...confusion of terms of which Edwards was not slow to take advantage. In one place Locke says that the "power which the mind has thus to order the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider it, ... is that which we call the will"; but elsewhere he takes the position, more consistent with his... | |
 | John Locke - 1924 - 438 pages
...This at least I think evident, that we find in ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue or end, several actions of our minds and motions of our bodies,...doing such or such a particular action. This power is that which we call the Will. The actual exercise of that power, by directing any particular action... | |
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That we find in ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue or end several actions of our minds, and motions of our bodies, barely by a thought or preference of the mind ordering, or as it were commanding, the doing or not doing such or such a particular... 
