Locke and his influence: to Grice (via King)

by JLS
for the GC

William King (1650-1729). Archbishop of Dublin, he is discussed by J. Harris in this study, "Liberty and necessity: the free will debate in eighteenth-century British philosophy". His "A key to divinity: or, a philosophical essay on free-will" came out in 1715 King was an indifferentist: i.e. he articulates a strong form of libertarianism, one that sees freedom as resting in the indifference of the will. The book, available online in fascimile form, contains four sections: Section 1, "On the nature of choice" (Five subsections: Subsection 1: "Their opinion considered, who allow freedom from external force only, not from internal necessity." Subsection 2: "The common opinion considered, that freedom is no less than necessity, than [sic] from force." Subsection 3: "Another notion of freedom and choice proposed." Subsection 4: "That there is an agent, whom things therefore please, because they are chosen. Subsection 5: "Man has the power of pleasing himself by choice.") Section 2: "That Happiness consists in choice." Section 3: "Of undue choices." Section 4. "How it is possible that we should fall into undue choices."

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