7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom

General Philosophy by Oxford University

Dec 1, 201014:03Education

Part 7.2. Looks at Hobbes' and Hume's views of free will and the three concepts of freedom, and considers the idea of moral responsibility as dependent on free will.

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