It follows that "a determination of mind to union and benevolence to a particular person or private system [whether one's self, one's family, one's nation, or even humanity], which is but a small part of the universal system of being…is not of the nature of true virtue" unless it is dependent on or "subordinate to, benevolence to Being in general" (True Virtue, 1765; Edwards 1957–, vol. 8, 554).
But in this case, says Locke, "there is want of Freedom" because "a Palsie [hinders] his Legs from obeying the determination of his Mind, if it would thereby transferr his Body to another Place" (E2-5 is.xxi.11: 239): thet is, the paralyzed person is unable to move even if he wills to move.
A sense, as the term is deployed by Hutcheson, is every determination of our minds to receive ideas independently of our will, and to have perceptions of pleasure and pain.
Let these generous sentiments be supposed ever so weak; let them be insufficient to move even a hand or finger of our body; they must still direct the determinations of our mind, and where everything else is equal, produce a cool preference of what is useful and serviceable to mankind, above what is pernicious and dangerous.
How well do the determinations of the mind teach us about the nature of being when those determinations estrange us from each other?
Yet bribers, murderers and defrauders aren't convicted of "thought crimes" simply because their convictions are based in part on a determination of the state of mind that motivated their actions.
Rather, they are the products of various "senses" or "determinations of our minds to receive Ideas independently of our Will" (ONC, 17).
Ms. Rollin and others write that aid in dying is mostly about self-determination, dignity and peace of mind.
That quickness of mind and determination was characteristic of England and left Wales numbed; what little ball the visitors won they hoofed away aimlessly or coughed it up in the tackle.
Word of his presence spread quickly down the line, giving peace of mind and added determination to the soldiers who were about to defend Horseshoe Ridge.
He graduated from No. 2 SFTS in October 1940, and subsequently received a commendation from the Australian Air Board for his "presence of mind, courage and determination in landing the locked Ansons without serious damage to the aircraft under difficult conditions".
