 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, barely by a thought or preference of the mind ordering, or, as it were, commanding the doing or not doing...  The Works of John Locke - Page 235by John Locke - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Vida Frank Moore - 1901 - 470 pages
...§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, barely by a thought...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 - 434 pages
...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, barely by a thought...doing such or such a particular action. This power ia what we call will" (On the Human Understanding, Bk. II, Ch. 21, § 5). Before entering into the... | |
 | Nathan Elbert Truman - 1904 - 110 pages
...§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, barely by a thought...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
..."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, barely by a...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
...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, barely by a thought...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... | |
 | Robert Harvey Gault, Delton Thomas Howard - 1925 - 494 pages
...VOLUNTARY CONDUCT "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...doing such or such a particular action. This power is what we call will." — JOHN LOCKE The Volitional Situation. — Reactions of the voluntary type... | |
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