Author: EDWARDS JONATHAN
Title: 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
Description: Liverpool, Edward Howell. 1877, reprint. Cloth, 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.". Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Christian Theology Philosophy Free Will Predestination Morals Ethics Religion


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