Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521596688)

Do human beings ever act freely, and if so what does freedom mean? Is everything that happens antecedently caused, and if so how is freedom possible? Is it right, even for God, to punish people for things they cannot help doing? This volume presents the famous seventeenth-century controversy in which Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall debate these questions and others. The complete texts of their initial contributions to the debate are included, together with selections from their subsequent replies to one another and from other works of Hobbes.

Author: Thomas Hobbes, John Bramhall
ISBN-10: 0521596688
ISBN-13: 9780521596688
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/28/1999
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d