...and what it means to say that "an agent could, or might, have done otherwise." Hume's own account, "if we choose to remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may," seems, for example, to suggest a tie between "could" and "might": An agent could have done otherwise...

...other. For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact. By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting according to the determinations...hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains. Here then is no subject of dispute. . Whatever definition...

...of freedom in An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding: By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting according to the determinations...hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains (Hume 1955: 104) Similar sentiments had earlier been expressed...

...hurricane on the other side of the world. Libertarianism By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations...at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may. Hume, D. An Enquiry Conceming Human Understanding http://www.int1dels.org/library/historical/david_hume/human_understan...

...imprisoned within trains of thought determined by constant conjunction, and liberty is confined to " a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will" [italics in original].- 8 Like Hume, Scott is a lapsed Calvinist, and I shall be examining in the course...

...Hume's 'reconciling project'. A pair of conditionals summarize what we mean by liberty or the power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will: if we choose to remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may. In the first part of the...

...other. For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact. By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations...belong to every one, who is not a prisoner and in chains."5 Aber die Probleme dieser Auffassung liegen auf der Hand Gilt nicht auch von einem Süchtigen,...

...in his An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748): 'By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations...rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may.' (Section 8, Part 1, para. 73) Libertarians believe that we're free to act, and morally responsible...

...believe that they have self-determination or freedom to act: 'By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations...rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may.' (David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 1748) Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theohfiica (1273)...

...other. For these are plain and acknowledged matters of fact. By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will; this is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may. Now this hypothetical...