AMAMIHE Journal of Applied Philosophy

A quick glance at the historical evolution of philosophy reveals a retinue of postulations about the relationship between freedom and necessity. From the ethical dimension, Socrates and Plato argue that it is ignorance that makes people do evil, insinuating elements of determinism in human actions. Some thinkers like Thomas Hobbes and Sigmund Freud hold that man is not free because his actions are determined by psychological factors. There are also other philosophers who believe that man is entirely free without determinism. However, in the philosophy of David Hume, he makes a difficult synthesis of both freedom and necessity and argues that both factors exist in the same person. This piece studies his philosophy of the compatibilism of freedom and necessity and makes a critical analysis of it.

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