What is freedom according to Thomas Hobbes?

Human beings are physical objects, according to Hobbes, sophisticated machines all of whose functions and activities can be described and explained in purely mechanistic terms. read more

Human beings are physical objects, according to Hobbes, sophisticated machines all of whose functions and activities can be described and explained in purely mechanistic terms. Even thought itself, therefore, must be understood as an instance of the physical operation of the human body. read more

Hobbes on Freedom Recall that Bramhall draws the distinction between free and unfree action through an appeal to deliberation; free voluntary actions must be based on deliberation, but unfree voluntary actions (like a bee’s or a spider’s) need not. read more