According to Hobbes, when I say someone has acted freely I'm:
A) necessarily mistaken.
B) saying that his action wasn't physically caused.
C) saying that no outside force prevented him from doing what he decided to do.
D) Both B and C
E) None of the above

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Hobbes's conception of freedom is not about the absence of causation but about the absence of external impediments to acting as one decides. Thus, when someone acts freely according to Hobbes, it means that no outside force prevented him from doing what he decided to do.

According to Hobbes, When I Say Someone Has Acted Freely