 In A Treatise of Freewill, Cudworth elaborates his conception of the hegemonikon, an integrative power of the soul, which combines the the higher intellectual functions of the soul, will and reason with the lower, animal, appetites of the soul. Furthermore, Cudworth conceives of the hegemonikon not simply as the soul but the whole person, ‘that which is properly we ourselves’ (Cudworth, 1996, p. 178). Cudworth’s concept of hegemonikon lays the basis for a concept of self identity founded in a subject that is at once thinking, autonomous and end-directed. Cudworth did not (as far as is known) develop a political philosophy. However, the political implications of his ethical theory set him against Hobbes, but also, in many ways anticipate John Locke.