10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNMOTIVED»
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1
The Will: Divine and Human
ence, or action absolutely unmotived. I have endeavoured to shew, that a liberty
which consists in an unmotived supplementary act, giving a weaker motive the
preponderance over a stronger one, if conceivable, would be absolutely
worthless, ...
2
The Theory of Knowledge (Routledge Revivals): A Contribution ...
Our result so far would bethat thoughtor reasoning can only present us
withtwoalternatives, and eitherofthose arefatal tothe conception of the unmotived
possibility. Either we have complete grounds for a belief. Then thereare no
grounds for ...
3
Structural Depths of Indian Thought: Toward a Constructive ...
As the Sanskrit word kdma is generally translated by the word desire, the two
kinds of action arc translated as "action to fulfil a desire" and "desireless action"
and also as "motivated or motived action" and "unmotivated or unmotived action.
Poola Tirupati Raju, 1985
4
Broad's Critical Essays in Moral Philosophy
Then I shall say that it is actually unmotived. We must now notice the following
possibilities of mistake: (i) An ostensibly motived emotion may be really
unmotived. I may think, e.g., that my emotion of dislike for Smith is motived by my
knowledge ...
5
G. E. Moore: Early Philosophical Writings
... is only the possibility of choosing the reasonable course; the note appended
seems to be intended to defend this limitation.114 This note runs: 'It is not the
possibility of merely indeterminate choice, of an “arbitrary freak of unmotived
willing”, ...
Thomas Baldwin, Consuelo Preti, 2011
6
Clarence: or, A tale of our own times
Unmotived cruelty !' has not my purse saved you again and again from prison —
my silence prevented your being kicked from these doors, and driven from
society ?" " Pedrillo— Pedrillo !" " Nay, I care not who hears me. By Heavens,
Layton, I ...
Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1849
7
Letters: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807 : in Six ...
they may practise her crimes, they may overturn, inflict, and endure her miseries ;
but Europe, ruined and subjected to France, offers them no triumphs, no
extension of empire, that might compensate to their pride the unmotived sacrifice
of ...
8
The William James Reader
In every asylumwefind examplesof absolutely unmotived fear,anger, melancholy,
or conceit; andothers of an equally unmotived apathy which persists inspite of the
bestof outward reasons why it should give way. In the former cases we must ...
9
Some Aspects of the Dramatic Art of Aeschylus
A question of interest here presents itself, viz., did Aeschylus bring on a motived
or unmotived chorus? That is, did he give the audience any particular reason, by
direct statement or inference, for the presence of the chorus where they are ...
Rufus Town Stephenson, 1913
10
Psychology: The Briefer Course
In every asylum we find examples of absolutely unmotived fear, anger,
melancholy, or conceit; and others of an equally unmotived apathy which persists
in spite of the best of outward reasons why it should give way. In the former cases
we ...
