Corliss Lamont Quotes

Corliss Lamont (9)

Birth:	28th March, 1902
Death:	26th April, 1995
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Philosopher, Politician, Writer

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• The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

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• Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

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• The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

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• Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.

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• I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

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• The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

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• True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one’s true character, to be altogether one’s self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

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• Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

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• The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

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