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mmanning
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because of this - i might have the freedom to visit my in-laws, but, that freedom comes at a price - the wrath of my wife. if i exert the freedom to engage in compromise and i go, i go at the price of missed opportunities at home. all freedoms come at some price. the exercise of any one freedom is inextricably linked to other freedoms, opportunities, and costs. that's my take on it ...
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According to Hume, our experience tells us that events follow from other events. (His concept of causality is rather complicated.) The same sort of evidence tells us that our thoughts, actions, etc., follow from others. So, whatever necessity holds for objects also holds for our actions. However, our mistake is to think that liberty (the term he prefers to "freedom") is the opposite of necessity. The question is not, "Was one's action from liberty or necessity?," but "was the action from liberty or constraint?" In other words, Hume is a compatibilist--our actions are of course determined by antecedent cause, but we are unfree only if we are compelled to do something other than what we wish to do. I am fully responsible for my actions unless, for instance, somone holds a gun to my head.
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It does not exist, you can have freedom from something but absolute freedom does not exist.
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