Hobbes’s Conceptualization of Liberty and the Theoretical Debates on Freedom in Political Philosophy The conceptual terrain of political philosophy has long been structured around competing interpretations of liberty, with Thomas Hobbes’s definition of freedom as the absence of external impediments to motion representing one of the most influential—yet also controversial—formulations. In Leviathan (1651), Hobbes defined … Continue reading How does Hobbes’s conceptualization of liberty as the absence of external impediments to motion contribute to theoretical debates on the nature and limits of freedom within political philosophy?