...beings and our worlds intersect, and that makes it the place of liberty, which Locke identifies as "a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular...whereby either of them is preferred to the other." If either doing or not doing an action "is not in the power of the agent," she or he is under necessity,...

...conscience, without external control. 6. Liberty, in metaphysics, as opposed to necessity, is the power of an agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, by which either is preferred to the other. Locke. Freedom of the will; exemption from compulsion or...

...standard libertarian definition of liberty from Locke's Essay on Human Understanding, "a Power ... to do or forbear any particular Action, according...or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferr'd to the other."15 In Richard Price's Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles...