Hume’s definition of necessity and liberty According to Hume, some people who hold the view, for a long time, that all physical object is subjected to the determination of the nature, which means that all the outcome of the phenomena have already been determined by what produced the phenomena; in Hume’s word, the outcome of the phenomena is called …show more content…
For Hume, an individual has free will if the action or absence of action of the individual correspond to his/her will which the will could not be otherwise. Hume thinks that this concept of free will is applicable to everyone except for the people who were physically limited, like prisoner (72). In Hume’s conception of free will, liberty is not an opposition of determinism, instead, Hume puts liberty in the opposite side of constraints which is the boundary stopping one acting according to his/her will (72).
Hume’s reconciliation on Freedom and