David Hume's Views On Human Freedom And Free Will
In David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; Hume gives the name of liberty to the idea of human free will. "By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will; that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may" (Hume p.63). Hume believes free will to be unpredictable. He does not accept the idea of absolute free will, although he does not believe a Deity determines all our actions.
There are two classifications of actions, those, which are premeditated and those ....
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