Freedom

1. Immunity from constraint. 2. Absolute or relative independence. 3. Self-determination in relation to a finite and contingent good. 

 

Freedom of Exercise.— The freedom to do or not to do what one has decided to do. 

 

Freedom of Specification.— The freedom to decide, by way of objective specification, what one wants to do. 

 

Free Choice of the Will (also called Free Will).— The power of the will, operating in conjunction with the intellect, to determine to do some particular action.  Such freedom involves both exercise and specification.  This freedom is possible because of the will’s formal specification to the Good as such, leaving the will “dominatingly” indifferent to any created goods. 

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