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I: Against Free Will: Hobbes on Bramhall's True Liberty I: Against Free Will: Hobbes on Bramhall's True Liberty
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II: Liberty, Law, and the Basic Objections II: Liberty, Law, and the Basic Objections
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III: Liberty, Consent and the Foundation of Morals III: Liberty, Consent and the Foundation of Morals
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IV: The Eternal Moral Law and the Dual‐Law Objection IV: The Eternal Moral Law and the Dual‐Law Objection
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V: Gods, Clocks, and the Liberty Assumption V: Gods, Clocks, and the Liberty Assumption
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20 The Free Will Problem
Get accessPaul Russell is Professor of Philosophy at Lund University (Sweden) the University of British Columbia (Canada). At Lund he is also the Director of the Lund | Gothenburg Responsibility project. Among his books are Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume’s Way of Naturalizing Responsibility (Oxford University Press 1995) and The Limits of Free Will: Selected Essays (Oxford University Press 2017).
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Published:02 May 2011
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Abstract
This article examines the free will problem as it arises within Thomas Hobbes' naturalistic science of morals in early modern Europe. It explains that during this period, the problem of moral and legal responsibility became acute as mechanical philosophy was extended to human psychology and as a result human choices were explained in terms of desires and preferences rather than being represented as acts of an autonomous faculty. It describes how Hobbes changed the face of moral philosophy, through his Leviathan, in ways that still structure and resonate within the contemporary debate.
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