Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity

ISBN-13: 9780521596688 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 140 str.

Vere Chappell

Opis

Do human beings ever act freely, and if so what does freedom mean? Is everything that happens antecedently caused, and if so how is freedom possible? Is it right, even for God, to punish people for things they cannot help doing? This volume presents the famous seventeenth-century controversy in which Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall debate these questions and others. The complete texts of their initial contributions to the debate are included, together with selections from their subsequent replies to one another and from other works of Hobbes.

Spis treści

'Discourse of Liberty and Necessity' John Bramhall; 'Of Liberty and Necessity' Thomas Hobbes; Selections from 'A Defence of True Liberty' John Bramhall; Selections from 'The Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity, and Chance' Thomas Hobbes; Selections from other works of Hobbes.