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<strong>THE</strong> PROBLEM OF FREE WILL 277<br />

which it claimed, albeit falsely, for itself? Wh<strong>at</strong>, if the<br />

metaphor can be forgiven, could have put such an idea<br />

into the machine's head? It seems impossible to answer<br />

this question. Now in a purely deterzninist world there<br />

are no freely acting cre<strong>at</strong>ures. There is, then, nothing in<br />

such a world whose behaviour could have suggested the<br />

notion of freedom to hunuui beings; nothing th<strong>at</strong> could<br />

have put the idea of freedom into their heads. Yet, as<br />

we have already pointed out, they could not have spontaneously<br />

gener<strong>at</strong>ed the idea for themselves, for in such<br />

a world nothing is spontaneously gener<strong>at</strong>ed. How, then,<br />

in a determinist world, can the illusion of freedom arise?<br />

DETERMINISM<br />

<strong>Books</strong><br />

Ethical Determinism.<br />

RASHDALL, H. H. The Theory of Good and Evil.<br />

<strong>Books</strong> on M<strong>at</strong>erialism. ,<br />

;*LANGE, F. A. The History of M<strong>at</strong>erialism.<br />

COHEN CHAPMAN. M<strong>at</strong>erialism Rest<strong>at</strong>ed.<br />

<strong>Books</strong> on the Mind-Body Problem.<br />

XBROAD, C. D. The Mind and its Place in N<strong>at</strong>ure, Section A.<br />

WISDOM, JOHN. Problems of Mind and M<strong>at</strong>ter, Part I.<br />

Represent<strong>at</strong>ive of Psychological Determinism.<br />

>AWS<strong>TO</strong>TLB. Nicomachaean Ethics, especially Book II.<br />

Any good modern book on psycho-analysis, for example,<br />

Freud, S. Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis.<br />

Represent<strong>at</strong>ive of Anthropological Determinism,<br />

WESTERMARGK, F. The Origin and Development of Moral Ideas.<br />

LIBERTARIANISM<br />

On the power of reason to motiv<strong>at</strong>e action the following may<br />

be consulted:<br />

PRICE, RICHARD. Review of the Principal Questions of Morals*<br />

REID, THOMAS. Outlines of Moral Philosophy.<br />

CUDWORTH, RALPH. Tre<strong>at</strong>ise concerning Eternal and Immutable<br />

Morality.<br />

A valuable tre<strong>at</strong>ment of the problem of freedom from the<br />

libertarian point of view will be found in A. E. Taylor's contribution<br />

to Contemporary British Philosophy, Vol. II, entitled The<br />

Freedom of Man. A sketch of the philosophy of personality<br />

is contained in J. M. Macmurray's, Freedom in the Modern

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