Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college which has won it the greatest number of times. The name of the association was changed from the Athletic Association of American Colleges, to the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association of America. It was decided that not college men, but members of any reputable amateur athletic association, should act as judges at the finish. Dartmouth was dropped from the association, she having failed to send contestants to the field meetings for three successive years. H. S. Brooks, Yale's champion runner, was elected president of the association for the ensuing year. Mr. Boehler of the University of Pennsylvania was chosen...
...first consider what are the implications of the determinist view. If our acts depend entirely on our present circumstances and character, and our characters on past circumstances and the circumstances of our parents, it is evident that all things are perfectly determined. For the past cannot be changed, and as the future flows out of the past by a necessary law, the future is itself equally fixed and immutable. Why then, it may be said, should we waste effort in trying to accomplish that which, if not settled already, can never come about? If all things spring necessarily from...
...back now and see if the theory of free will can help us out of our difficulty. If a man, solicited by given motives in a given emergency, may act in various ways; if a new force, springing uncaused into existence, becomes an agent or factor in his choice; will not the consciousness of guilt be explained? I think not. For if the same man in the same circumstances can make various decisions, how does his decision tell us anything about the true, permanent nature of he man? Whence the significance of his choice if, without being other than...
...difficulty, however, recurs here. If the will is evolved out of the man's nature and this nature is necessarily what it is, how does he choose his act, how is he free? A man's acts depend on his character, which includes his will, reacting on his circumstances. His character is itself the result of circumstances and of the characters of his parents. The question now arises: if we carry our inquiry back far enough, shall we arrive at a point where intellect and will are swallowed up in mechanical forces of which they are the slowly evolved product...
When we speak of freedom of the will, we usually understand a kind of freedom different from all these. We mean by freedom, that a man, solicited by given motives in a given emergency, may act in various ways. For instance: the fact that I am enjoying a walk does not prove that I went out, or am walking now, of my own free-will; on the contrary, my enjoyment, in so far as it has any bearing at all on my freedom, tends to discredit it; since it would be harder to assign a reason for my action...