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Reason, Grace, and Law: Suarez and Hobbes on Coercion, Church, and State | Prof. Thomas Pink

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Freedom Is Just an Abundance of Obstacles to Power

Freedom is simply an absence of obstacles to satisfaction of your appetites. Nothing else produces your actions but those power appetites. Goodness doesn't seem to be such a thing. So we've got rid of freedom as a power. Getting rid of freedom of power actually has a needed radical effect. It was an energy theory.

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