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• Free will and determinism
• Early works to 1800

• A Treatise of Freewill (London: John W. Parker, 1838), by Ralph Cudworth, ed. by John Allen (multiple formats at Google)
• Freedom of the Will, by Jonathan Edwards (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit, by Joseph Priestley (page images here ay Penn)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Why We Are Free: Consciousness, Free Will, and Creativity in a Unified Scientific Worldview (2021), by David Layzer, ed. by Anthony Aguirre and Bob Doyle (PDF with commentary at informationphilosopher.com)
• Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by David Weissman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Schelling and Romanticism (2000), ed. by David S. Ferris (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Volonté et Liberté (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1913), by Wincenty Lutosławski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Suarez on Human Freedom (Thomistic studies #3; Baltimore: Carroll Press, c1950), by Thomas U. Mullaney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by David Ray Griffin (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• La Liberté Chez Descartes et la Théologie (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1913), by Étienne Gilson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Our Faith and Strength, by Naftali Hoffner (HTML at Ohr Somayach)
• Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Frank Lubecki Pogson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Volition and Allied Causal Concepts, by Avi Sion (frame-dependent HTML at thelogician.net)
• Whosoever Will, by Homer Hoeksema (HTML at prca.org)

• The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, by Loraine Boettner (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)
• The Sovereignty of Grace, by Arthur C. Custance (HTML at custance.org)

• 75 Bible Questions Your Instructors Pray You Won't Ask (Tyler, TX: Spurgeon Press, c1984), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Grace, Predestination, and the Salvific Will of God: New Answers to Old Questions, by William G. Most (HTML at catholicculture.org)

• The Treasure of Trueth Touching the Grounde Worke of Man His Salvation, and Chiefest Pointes of Christian Religion, With a Briefe Summe of the Comfortable Doctrine of God His Providence, Comprised in 38 Short Aphorismes (with added treatises by Foxe and Gilby; London: J. Charlewood, 1576), by Théodore de Bèze, trans. by John Stockwood, contrib. by John Foxe and Anthony Gilby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted (New York: G. Linsday, 1811), by Girolamo Zanchi, ed. by Augustus Toplady (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tractatus de Praedestinatione et de Praescientia Dei et de Futuris Contingentibus of William Ockham, Edited With a Study on the Mediaeval Problem of a Three-Valued Logic (Franciscan Institute Publications #2; Tractatus in Latin and commentary in English; St. Bonaventure, NY: St. Bonaventure College, 1945), by William of Ockham, ed. by Philotheus Boehner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Doctrine of Election, by Arthur Walkington Pink (multiple formats at chapelllibrary.org)

• Chosen Peoples (New York: American Jewish Book Co., 1921), by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)

• A Defence of Particular Redemption, by William Rushton (page images at Google)

• Studies on Saving Faith, by Arthur Walkington Pink (multiple formats at monergism.com)

• Libertine Strategies: Freedom and the Novel in Seventeenth-Century France (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Joan E. DeJean (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• Of Life and Death: Report of the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, by Canada Parliament Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (HTML in Canada)

• When Death Is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context, by New York State Task Force on Life and the Law (HTML at state.ny.us)

• Institutional Protocols for Decisions About Life-Sustaining Treatments: Special Report (Washington: GPO, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)

• The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

• A Geographical Historie of Africa (London: G. Bishop, 1600), by Leo Africanus, trans. by John Pory
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
  • Volume I: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume I, second edition: HTML at ECCO TCP
  • volume II: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: HTML at ECCO TCP
  • 2 volumes in 1: page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
• The Travels of Ibn Batūta;: Translated from the Abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies Preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, With Notes Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiques, &c Occurring Throughout the Work (London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Committee, 1829), by Ibn Batuta, ed. by Samuel Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1785), by Anthony Benezet
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-Wealths Thorowout the World, Discoursing of Their Situations, Religions, Languages, Manners, Customes, strengths, Greatnesse, and Policies (London: Printed by I. Haviland for I. Partridge, 1630), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms and Common-Weales Thorough the World, Discoursing of Their Scituations, Manners, Customes, Strengthes and Pollicies (London: Printed for J. Jaggard, 1611), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Voyage of Hanno: Translated, and Accompanied With the Greek text, Explained From the Accounts of Modern Travellers, Defended Against the Objections of Mr. Dodwell and Other Writers, and Illustrated by Maps from Ptolemy, d'Anville, and Bougainville (in Greek and English; London: Sold by T. Cadell, jun. and Davies, 1797), by Hanno, ed. by Thomas Falconer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Periplus of Hanno: A Voyage of Discovery Down the West African Coast, by a Carthaginian Admiral of the Fifth Century B.C. (Philadelphia: Commercial Museum, 1912), by Hanno, trans. by Wilfred H. Schoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Discourse Intended to Commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: Delivered at the Request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, Being the Completion of the Third Century Since That Memorable Event; To Which Are Added Four Dissertations (Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1792), by Jeremy Belknap
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Evans TCP

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