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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 unpr ....
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.... be made for, "the diversity of character, prejudices, and opinions" (Hume p.57). All humans have the same limitations, and in this way humanity's liberty is limited by uniformity.
There are reasons given why the creator does not determine human actions. If the Deity had all power over actions, there would be no reason to create impious actions. Also if the Deity did create evil actions we, "must acknowledge him to be the ultimate author of guilt and moral turpitude in all his creatur ....
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