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by richard alliott

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...affections, and the desires, can have nothing to do with them. But it is the motive which gives moral character to our actions ; they would have no moral character if they were done without motive, except indeed the absence of motive be regarded as itself blameworthy ; but this it could not be, on the supposition of the self-determining power of the will, because in that case the primary decision of the will, the decision of which alone I am now speaking, is necessarily without motive; and if necessarily without motive, it cannot be blameworthy for being without it. 76 RELATION OF THE ARGUMENT Consequently since all our actions are primarily attribu- table, if the will has a self-determining moral as well as physical power, to that power independently of all refer- ence to motive, none of them can have any moral cha- racter. I will put this reasoning into another form. We take for granted here what we think we have satisfac- torily proved in a former part of the present lecture —...

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