Book,  Chapter

  1   Read         |            there written concerning Liberty and the Will, I thought
  2      I,  I     |         question it. But yet I take liberty to say, that these propositions
  3      I,  II    |            the sports of men set at liberty from punishment and censure.
  4     II,  XIII  |           in this every one has his liberty: I propose it only for the
  5     II,  XIV   |      contrary, I have certainly the liberty to suppose it, as well as
  6     II,  XXI   |              7. Whence the ideas of liberty and necessity. Every one,
  7     II,  XXI   |         himself, arise the ideas of liberty and necessity.~8. Liberty,
  8     II,  XXI   |           liberty and necessity.~8. Liberty, what. All the actions that
  9     II,  XXI   |      voluntary. So that the idea of liberty is, the idea of a power
 10     II,  XXI   |        volition, there he is not at liberty; that agent is under necessity.
 11     II,  XXI   |            under necessity. So that liberty cannot be where there is
 12     II,  XXI   |         volition, where there is no liberty. A little consideration
 13     II,  XXI   |        versa; and therefore has not liberty, is not a free agent; but
 14     II,  XXI   |          under him), has not herein liberty, is not a free agent. For
 15     II,  XXI   |        nobody thinks he has in this liberty; every one pities him, as
 16     II,  XXI   |             is evident he is not at liberty not to stay, he has not
 17     II,  XXI   |         freedom to be gone. So that liberty is not an idea belonging
 18     II,  XXI   |       choose or direct. Our idea of liberty reaches as far as that power,
 19     II,  XXI   |            to forbear acting, there liberty, and our notion of it, presently
 20     II,  XXI   |   perpetually dancing; he is not at liberty in this action, but under
 21     II,  XXI   |             itself unalterable.~12. Liberty, what. As it is in the motions
 22     II,  XXI   |           the mind, there we are at liberty. A waking man, being under
 23     II,  XXI   |   constantly in his mind, is not at liberty to think or not to think;
 24     II,  XXI   |        think; no more than he is at liberty, whether his body shall
 25     II,  XXI   |            of his ideas, as much at liberty as he is in respect of bodies
 26     II,  XXI   |           man on the rack is not at liberty to lay by the idea of pain,
 27     II,  XXI   |              without leaving us the liberty of thinking on other things,
 28     II,  XXI   |    everything necessary agents.~14. Liberty belongs not to the will.
 29     II,  XXI   |        swift, or his virtue square: liberty being as little applicable
 30     II,  XXI   |            as plainly perceive that liberty, which is but a power, belongs
 31     II,  XXI   |           nothing but such a power. Liberty, on the other side, is the
 32     II,  XXI   |             not a power to act.~20. Liberty belongs not to the will.
 33     II,  XXI   |          then, to the inquiry about liberty, I think the question is
 34     II,  XXI   |           words or silence, I am at liberty to speak or hold my peace:
 35     II,  XXI   |           wills. Concerning a man’s liberty, there yet, therefore, is
 36     II,  XXI   |            such a case is not free: liberty consisting in a power to
 37     II,  XXI   |             considered as such.~24. Liberty is freedom to execute what
 38     II,  XXI   |       evident, That a man is not at liberty to will, or not to will,
 39     II,  XXI   |          that he once considers of: liberty consisting in a power to
 40     II,  XXI   |          still is said yet to be at liberty; because he can walk if
 41     II,  XXI   |              A man that walks is at liberty also, not because he walks
 42     II,  XXI   |        remove himself, he is not at liberty; so likewise a man falling
 43     II,  XXI   |         though in motion, is not at liberty, because he cannot stop
 44     II,  XXI   |         give off walking, is not at liberty, whether he will determine
 45     II,  XXI   |            to act, wherein consists liberty. The mind, in that case,
 46     II,  XXI   |         most cases, a man is not at liberty, whether he will or no, (
 47     II,  XXI   |             is,—Whether a man be at liberty to will which of the two
 48     II,  XXI   |      sufficiently be convinced that liberty concerns not the will. For,
 49     II,  XXI   |             ask whether a man be at liberty to will either motion or
 50     II,  XXI   |         infinitum.~26. The ideas of liberty and volition must be defined.
 51     II,  XXI   |      consideration. If the ideas of liberty and volition were well fixed
 52     II,  XXI   |          standing on a cliff, is at liberty to leap twenty yards downwards
 53     II,  XXI   |          side of his chamber, is at liberty to walk twenty feet southward,
 54     II,  XXI   |           not, at the same time, at liberty to do the contrary, i.e.
 55     II,  XXI   |            one after another; is at liberty to consider the objects
 56     II,  XXI   |            others. In this lies the liberty man has; and from the not
 57     II,  XXI   |             to me the source of all liberty; in this seems to consist
 58     II,  XXI   |        judgment, is no restraint to liberty. This is so far from being
 59     II,  XXI   |           is the end and use of our liberty; and the further we are
 60     II,  XXI   |             other side. A man is at liberty to lift up his hand to his
 61     II,  XXI   |           himself, which is want of liberty. And to deny that a man’
 62     II,  XXI   |          happiness no abridgment of liberty. But to give a right view
 63     II,  XXI   |            of this mistaken part of liberty let me ask,—Would any one
 64     II,  XXI   |            name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool, and draw
 65     II,  XXI   |     choosing or doing the worse, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and
 66     II,  XXI   |             worse, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the
 67     II,  XXI   |            mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.
 68     II,  XXI   |           accounts an abridgment of liberty, or at least an abridgment
 69     II,  XXI   |           at least an abridgment of liberty to be complained of. God
 70     II,  XXI   |     abridges not that power wherein liberty consists. He that has his
 71     II,  XXI   |             to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go
 72     II,  XXI   |         happiness the foundation of liberty. As therefore the highest
 73     II,  XXI   |         necessary foundation of our liberty. The stronger ties we have
 74     II,  XXI   |            hinge on which turns the liberty of intellectual beings,
 75     II,  XXI   |             and exercise of all the liberty men have, are capable of,
 76     II,  XXI   |            the right improvement of liberty. But if any extreme disturbance (
 77     II,  XXI   |          with us, allows us not the liberty of thought, and we are not
 78     II,  XXI   |             into the state of human liberty. Liberty, it is plain, consists
 79     II,  XXI   |             state of human liberty. Liberty, it is plain, consists in
 80     II,  XXI   |          inquired,—Whether he be at liberty to will or no? And to this
 81     II,  XXI   |         most cases, a man is not at liberty to forbear the act of volition:
 82     II,  XXI   |            case wherein a man is at liberty in respect of willing; and
 83     II,  XXI   |             neglect or abuse of the liberty he had, to examine what
 84     II,  XXI   |            judge thereupon. Without liberty, the understanding would
 85     II,  XXI   |          and without understanding, liberty (if it could be) would signify
 86     II,  XXI   |           seeing? And he that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness,
 87     II,  XXI   |       perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if he were driven
 88     II,  XXI   |         therefore, and great use of liberty is to hinder blind precipitancy;
 89     II,  XXI   |        possible.~73. Recapitulation—liberty of indifferency. To conclude
 90     II,  XXI   |             this inquiry into human liberty, which, as it stood before,
 91     II,  XXI   |           which, in short, is this: Liberty is a power to act or not
 92     II,  XXI   |           own judgment. I know that liberty, by some, is placed in an
 93     II,  XXI   |         understanding: and to place liberty in an indifferency, antecedent
 94     II,  XXI   | understanding, seems to me to place liberty in a state of darkness,
 95     II,  XXI   |            being allowed capable of liberty, but in consequence of thought
 96     II,  XXI   |         that love to speak so, that liberty is placed in indifferency,
 97     II,  XXI   |             is gone, and with it my liberty; I have no longer freedom
 98     II,  XXI   |         away by that motion; and my liberty in that case is lost, for
 99     II,  XXI   |           what sort of indifferency liberty seems to me to consist,
100     II,  XXI   |            the nature and extent of liberty are of so great importance,
101     II,  XXI   |            ideas of will, volition, liberty, and necessity, in this
102     II,  XXI   |        fairly clear this subject of liberty from any difficulties that
103     II,  XXIII |            of thinking, perceiving, liberty, and power of moving themselves
104     II,  XXIII |          which is consequent to it, liberty. For, as body cannot but
105     II,  XXIII |        ambient fluid, having a full liberty to succeed in each point
106     II,  XXVII |        every one will always have a liberty to speak as he pleases,
107     II,  XXVIII|            power to take away life, liberty, or goods, from him who
108     II,  XXX   |            of man uses some kind of liberty in forming those complex
109     II,  XXXII |           false, it is fit he use a liberty, which every one has, to
110    III,  II    |             man has so inviolable a liberty to make words stand for
111    III,  V     |             modes, the mind takes a liberty not to follow the existence
112    III,  V     |         proceeds in these, and what liberty it takes in them, we shall
113    III,  V     |           are made by it with great liberty, yet they are not made at
114    III,  V     |         another, it does with great liberty unite often into one abstract
115    III,  VI    |           not made by man with some liberty; but were exactly copied
116    III,  VI    |       Conclusion. To conclude: what liberty Adam had at first to make
117    III,  VI    |           since under too. The same liberty also that Adam had of affixing
118    III,  IX    |          substances we have not the liberty, as in mixed modes, to frame
119    III,  X     |       without names for them, wants liberty and dispatch in his expressions,
120     IV,  III   |       different colours: but I take liberty also to say, to eyes differently
121     IV,  III   |          government allows absolute liberty.” The idea of government
122     IV,  III   |            and the idea of absolute liberty being for any one to do
123     IV,  III   |           in the world, nor men the liberty to search after it: what
124     IV,  VIII  |           10. And why. He that hath liberty to define, i.e. to determine
125     IV,  X     |          assures him of, beyond the liberty of doubting, viz. that he
126     IV,  XVI   |             and leaves us as little liberty to believe or disbelieve,
127     IV,  XVII  |             without allowing it the liberty, much less affording it
128     IV,  XVII  |              which I shall take the liberty to mention here again:—~
129     IV,  XIX   |           occasion I shall take the liberty to consider a third ground
130     IV,  XX    |          far, nay further, from the liberty and opportunities of a fair
131     IV,  XX    |             in that they are not at liberty to refuse swallowing what
132     IV,  XX    |             mind lets them float at liberty. But where the mind judges