Sentence examples for freely acting from inspiring English sources

The god has tried to create a freely acting hero who can win the Ring back from the dragon Fafner without violating prior contractual arrangements.

The problem is with the broader context Russo paints, in which Korshak and a handful of men with Jewish-sounding names are seen less as freely acting individuals than as cogs in a secret machine.

In the state of nature, as he conceives of it, individuals may enjoy "wild, lawless freedom," but the threats and constraints imposed by others prevent them from freely acting on their choices (1991[1797], p. 127).

So on Aquinas's view, while humans in their natural state are capable of freely acting wrongly because they see some good in acting that way, in their glorified state in heaven they are unable to sin, for they see no point in sinning and they are not such that their agency can be interfered with by external factors.

Ethics thus considers the object of consciousness not as something given or even as something constructed by necessary laws of consciousness, but rather as something to be produced by a freely acting subject, consciously striving to establish and to accomplish its own goals and guided only by its own self-legislated laws.

For those who think it must be possible for us to act in ways other than how we in fact act to be acting freely and be morally responsible, this is a convenient metaphysical stance.

Yet James wishes to defend his sense that any such formulation will be determined as much by a freely-acting human mind as by the world, a position he later (in Pragmatism) calls "humanism": "there belongs to mind, from its birth upward, a spontaneity, a vote.

When people make decisions or perform actions, they usually feel as though they are choosing or acting freely.

But by spending freely and by acting as if he might lose, the senator managed to turn things around.

By identifying at least partly with the evildoer, the reader might imagine acting freely on instinctual impulses outside the laws of civilized decorum.

Some doctors worry, too, that even though donors and recipients are screened by psychiatrists and social workers and evaluated by different medical teams to avoid conflict of interest, donors may not truly be acting freely.