Sentence examples for free act of from inspiring English sources

Evidence so procured can no more be regarded as the product of a free act of the accused than that obtained by official physical or psychological coercion.

Clarke saw in Newtonianism a world that could only exist by a free act of God.

There is a correlation between ingestion of the drug and recovery that persists under the experimenter's free act of administering the drug even though ingestion of the drug does not cause recovery.

For Fichte the very fact of philosophy's existence depends upon the free act of the I which initiates the reflective questioning of its own activity by the I. Schelling takes up the issues raised by Jacobi and Fichte in two texts of 1795: Of the I as Principle of Philosophy or on the Unconditional in Human Knowledge, and Philosophical Letters on Dogmatism and Criticism.

This is important for the practical function of faith, since our commitment to morality does not so simply depend on our affirmation of the postulates, but in our free act of faith through which we more completely bind ourselves to morality.

The cornerstone of his theory of divine exemplarism is the conviction that there is a close parallelism between human artificers as producers of artifacts and God as a creator only in this way, according to Paul, can the main goal of every theory of divine ideas (that is, the explanation of the rationality of creation as a free act of God) be achieved.

A central question at the meetings of the Congregationes had to do with the relation of supernatural grace to meritorious, free acts of will.

Free acts of consent fall under the latter, whereas the former involves the dispositions of our free inclinations that God produces in us on the occasion of these acts (Malebranche 1958 84, 11 70).

(See Schwamm 1934; Vos et al. 1994; Söder 1999; for some discussions of Scotus's view of the free acts of the will, see Dumont 2001; Normore 2003, 141 145; Langston 2010).

In her An Investigation Concerning the State (1925), Stein argues that states are collective persons, which are sovereign and which are posited by free acts of "foundation" (Staatsgründung, 1925, 30).

That is, societies exist only to reach a common goal and are founded by the free acts of their members, whereas communities arise spontaneously, and their members are in solidarity with one another.