Buy this book on-line EDWARDS Jonathan : A Careful and Strict Enquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will, Which Is Supposed to be Essential to . . . Praise and BlameEdward Howell, Liverpool, 1877
12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. 1877 issue of work originally published in 1754, New England theological philosophy on Free Will, spine sunned, light wear to corners, would be VG but the case is detached from the text block, text block is tight and tidy, small neat rubber name stamp to half-title page, clxii 422 +4pp adverts, with an introductory essay by Isaac Taylor, "Here, Edwards averred that people enter the world in a state of total depravity and carry no disposition to good or bad action. The sole liberty people possess, in Edwards’s view, is the liberty that 'I can do, if I will.' Yet the will, Edwards concluded in this treatise, is not free; it is determined by motives toward 'apparent good' or 'that which is agreeable.' So long as people can do what they will to do, Edwards argued, they are free. Freedom of the Will was a complicated treatise for complicated philosophical times.". Book Condition: Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of EDWARDS Jonathan : A Careful and Strict Enquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will, Which Is Supposed to be Essential to . . . Praise and Blame. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, out-of-print books, libri rari, livres illustrées and antiquarian books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |