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David Hume's Views On Human Freedom And Free Will
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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 ....
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....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 creatures" (Hume p.67). It is evident that Hume does not conclude that specific evils could have been pre-determined by the creator.
If it were anything but human reason that drove our actions, than there could be no crimes. The superior being when these acts were created thro.... |
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