Free Will And Four English Philosophers: Hobbes, Locke, Hume And Mill - Softcover

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Since then they have been submitted to much castigation and amendment, less perhaps than they deserve, at the hands of the writer, then youthful, now an elderly man. This fad may account for some inequalities of style. Certain tender memories of the past have stayed my hand from pruning away a Utraces of the exuberance of youth. Meanwhile the importance of the subjeft has grown rather than diminished, chiefly, I think, owing to the prevalence of the Kantian philosophy. I may as well forewarn the reader that Kant is not discussed here, except indiredlly, in so far as the phenomenalism of Hume may be considered to have prepared the way for Kant. I have written elsewhere: Though men are slow to see it and loth to own it, from reminiscences I think of the odium theologicum hanging about the question, free will still remains the hub and centre of philosophical speculation. In this work the subjed is treated entirely on philosophical grounds: that is to say, there is no reference to gra(!:e, predestination, or the FaU. Thus St Augustine stands out of the controversy: so too Calvin and Jansenius. My Free Will in God and Man, pp. 142-155, in the Second Series of my Oxford and Cambridge Conferences 1900-1901: see also in my Toliticaland Moral Essays 1902, an Essay on Morality without Free Will.
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