David Hume's Views on Human Freedom and Free Will In David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; Hume gives the name of liberty to the idea of human free will. "By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will; that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may" (Hume p.63). Hume believes free will to be unpredictable. He does not accept the idea of absolute free will, although he does not believe a Deity determines all our actions. There are two classifications of actions, those, which are premeditated and those, which are spur of the moment. Free will can be hazardous because it allows us to commit spur of the moment actions, which are entirely out of character and contrary to our nature. Premeditated actions are those which truly depict the nature....

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