David Hume Liberty And Necessity Analysis

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An Argument on Liberty and Necessity
In David Hume’s of Liberty and Necessity he creates an argument based on the ideology of determinism and free will. As two rather contrasting concepts, he boils down his reasoning into to two simple words, liberty and necessity. Hume considers necessity as a constant conjunction of similar objects or in other words, a theory of causation that tells whenever one event occurs, so will the other. He then identifies liberty as the power to act or decide not to act with reference to free will.
The dispute that comes out of the idea behind Hume’s version of necessity is if everything is working in conjoined causation with something else how can a person truly have free will? What Hume argues is that you cannot have liberty without necessity, and that necessity only works if one has the ability to make a decision whether or not to perform an action. He believes that liberty should be contrasted with constraint or the inability to make decisions in accordance with their will, instead of actions being disconnected from their motive and disregarding neces...

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