Sunday, May 18, 2008
Hume on liberty and necessity
Hume opens his argument here by stating that this whole debate with free will is due to a loss of understanding for the meaning of the words. He feels that all disputes of teh subject of liberty are verbal arguments that lie in teh hands of understanding the true definition of what liberty stands for. Hume offers his own definition of liberty and his definition then relies on the what people define free as. Therefore, this whole debate seems like a neverending cycle where people need to have a definite unchanging definition of the word liberty and what free is in order for an understanding to be achieved.
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i found this part a little confusing. i don't know how people can argue a topic for thousands of years and not really know what eachother are talking about because of the confusion in the vocab.
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