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" freedom, or independence, it means (strictly speaking) the lack of opposition (As opposed, I mean external impediments of motion) and can be applied to irrational creatures and inanimate no less than rational. Because of anything attached or surrounded so as not to move but within a given space by the opposition of some external body, we say that is not free to go further. The same happens with all living creatures while they are imprisoned or in captivity, limited by walls or chains; and water while restrained by dams or canals, when otherwise scatter over a larger area. We tend to then say that such things are not at liberty to move as they would without these external impediments. But when the barrier to the movement is in the constitution of the thing itself does not usually say that it lacks the freedom, but the power to move, as when a stone lies still, or a man is tied to his bed by illness.

And according to this proper and generally accepted sense of the word, a free man is he who in things by force or ingenuity can do is not hindered in doing his will. But when the words free and liberty are applied to things other than bodies committed an abuse, because it is not subject to movement is not subject to impairment. And so, when it says (for example) that the way is clear does not indicate freedom in this way, but in whom there walk without stopping. [...] Finally, the use of the word free will could not infer any freedom of will, desire or inclination, but the freedom of man, which is not to find any high lead when out what has the will, desire or inclination to do [...]

Freedom and necessity are compatible. As with water, not only freedom but need to move down the channel, and occurs in actions undertaken voluntarily by men, who come from his will proceed from liberty, and yet come from the need because every act of human freedom and all desire and inclination come from any cause, and that from another in a continuous chain (whose first link is in the hands of God, first of all causes). Thus, for those who could see the connection of causes, be expressed the need for all voluntary actions of men .

Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan .