An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will
EXAMINATION
EDWARDS ON THE WILL.
AN EXAMINATION
PRESIDENT EDWARDS’ INQUIRY
INTO THE
FREEDOM OF THE WILL.
ALBERT TAYLOR BLEDSOE.
“Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows more, nor is capable of more.”— Novum Organum .
PHILADELPHIA:
H. HOOKER, 16 SOUTH SEVENTH STREET.
1845.
Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1845, by H. HOOKER, in the clerk’s office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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OF THE POINT IN CONTROVERSY.
OF EDWARDS’ USE OF THE TERM CAUSE.
THE INQUIRY INVOLVED IN A VICIOUS CIRCLE.
VOLITION NOT AN EFFECT.
OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF REGARDING VOLITION AS AN EFFECT.
OF THE MAXIM THAT EVERY EFFECT MUST HAVE A CAUSE.
OF THE APPLICATION OF THE MAXIM THAT EVERY EFFECT MUST HAVE A CAUSE.
OF THE RELATION BETWEEN THE FEELINGS AND THE WILL.
OF THE LIBERTY OF INDIFFERENCE.
OF ACTION AND PASSION.
OF THE ARGUMENT FROM THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
OF EDWARDS’ USE OF THE TERM NECESSITY.
OF NATURAL AND MORAL NECESSITY.
OF EDWARDS’ IDEA OF LIBERTY.
OF EDWARDS’ IDEA OF VIRTUE.
OF THE SELF-DETERMINING POWER.
OF THE DEFINITION OF A FREE AGENT.
OF THE TESTIMONY OF CONSCIOUSNESS.