We want it to be true that in that very same situation we could have done otherwise, so that our actions will have originative value. |
In Crescas's opnion, free will, in the sense of an originative cause that is itself uncaused, to decide and act does not really exist. |
The necessary demand of reason is that the first and originative cause of all finite personality shall be Himself a person. |
Lombardy, with the exception of Venice, is comparatively barren of originative elements. |
This originative source is a well from which very different kinds of poems can be drawn up. |
There was no room for, and no need of, the conception of free, originative thought. |