"Determinist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... consciousness. This is the only sense in which moral freedom can be understood. (See ETHICS; KANT.) Though the term "autonomy" in its fullest sense implies entire freedom from causal necessity, it can also be used even in determinist theories for relative independence of ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various
... The Determinist would say that Bill Sikes had committed a crime, and that he ought to be restrained, and ...
— God and my Neighbour • Robert Blatchford
... speaking with authority, tells us that "to the true pantheist" man is "but a finite mode of infinite Being"; that human personality is only "seeming" [4] and that, from the pantheistic standpoint, the self must be "content to be nothing." That is to say that the consistent pantheist must be a consistent determinist. Logical Pantheism rules out the possibility of sin against man or God—"for who withstandeth His will," seeing that He is the only real Existence? Let a further quotation make this plain. "What," asks Mr. Picton, ...
— Problems of Immanence - Studies Critical and Constructive • J. Warschauer
... to wish that a man had done anything different from that which he has done. Without being a rigid Determinist, one may be pretty well convinced that the actual conduct is the joint result of abilities, and of desires, and of opportunity to exercise them, and that the man, had he really done otherwise, would have been unsuccessful or ...
— Matthew Arnold • George Saintsbury
... reasoning on happiness is of any use 1 The arguments of the Determinist 2 The arguments for free will 3 Securus judicat ...
— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
