Do human beings ever act freely, and if so what does freedom mean? Is everything that happens antecedently caused, and if so how is freedom possible? Is it right, even for God, to punish people for things they cannot help doing? This volume presents the famous seventeenth-century controversy in which Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall debate these questions and others. The complete texts of their initial contributions to the debate are included, together with selections from their subsequent replies to one another and from other works of Hobbes.
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Do human beings ever act freely, and if so what does freedom mean? Is everything that happens antecedently caused, and if so how is freedom possible? Is it right, even for God, to punish people for things they cannot help doing? This volume presents the famous seventeenth-century controversy in which Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall debate these questions and others. The complete texts of their initial contributions to the debate are included, together with selections from their subsequent replies to one another and from other works of Hobbes.
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3 Either I am free to write this discourse for liberty against necessity, or I am not free. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extrinsical causes, extrinsical necessity, necessity upon supposition, last dictate, evil sequels, necessitate the will, last appetite, hypothetical necessity, sensitive appetite, moral efficacy, divided sense, true liberty, external impediments, outward objects, distinct faculties, voluntary agent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on page 5, and page 50
- Thomas Hobbes: Critical Assessments (Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers) by Preston King in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Tom Sorell in Front Matter
- Man and Citizen by Thomas Hobbes in Front Matter
- Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Friedrich Schleiermacher in Back Matter
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- The Discourse of Sovereignty, Hobbes to Fielding: The State of Nature and the Nature of the State (Studies in Early Modern English Literature) by Stuart Sim on page 26, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Philosophical Perspectives, Action and Freedom (Philosophical Perspectives Annual Volume) (Volume 14) by James Tomberlin on page 224, and page 228
- Manifest Activity: Thomas Reid's Theory of Action by Gideon Yaffe on page 15, and Back Matter
- Kant: Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Robert B. Louden in Back Matter
- Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Aristotle in Index
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