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Excerpt from Freedom of Mind in Willing: Or Every Being That Wills a Creative First Cause
Page tions may prove that he is not pure and wise, but not that he is not fiee - The particular cases of moral inability stated by Edwards - Examination of those cases - All analogous to those of inability to will, because there is no want - In ability to will what we do not want to will is not against freedom - No reason to suppose that a previous bias or inclination will prevail over the present in the act of will - If it does, it is because the biased or inclined mind itself con trols the act of will - As in the case of nature of things, Edwards makes habit a power, or cause - No certainty and no necessity that habits will continue - Habits of a man in?uence his act of will only in case he wills freely - Man is said to be a slave to his habits; reasons why - The argument from moral necessity only proves that a man wills in conformity to what he wills, and natural necessity only implies that he cannot always execute what he Wills.
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