Reflections on free will in the origins of the Modern State
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Political philosophy. Liberty. Necessity. Hobbes. Bramhall.Abstract
In this article we intend to deal with the concept of freedom in the main works of Thomas Hobbes, aiming to discuss the centrality of the manuscript Of Liberty and Necessity for the understanding of the variations that characterized the Hobbesian thought in the approach of the abovementioned concept. The lack of clarity in the notion of liberty seems to be, in part, a consequence of the changes in the philosopher’s conviction about the possibility of using the freedom of the individual as a physical entity in a different way of the freedom of the individual within the political body. However, it will be argued, as a theoretical hypothesis for this research, that during the debate with Bramhall it would have been possible for Hobbes to clarify many of these terminological imprecisions and conceptual variations, especially in relation to freedom and necessity in his theory of antecedents causes.
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