Fate or Free Will? (Aquinas) - a podcast by Dre Carlan

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“Does a man have free choice in his actions or does he choose necessarily?
It seems that he chooses necessarily, not freely.
For it is said in Jeremiah 10.23 ‘that the way of a man is not his, neither is it in a man to walk and direct his steps’. But that with respect to which a man has freedom is his, as constituted, as it were, within his dominion. Therefore, it seems that a man does not have free choice of his way or of his acts.”
-On Human Choice, Disputed Question on Evil, 6.1


“Moreover, he who does what he does not wish to do does not have free choice; but man does what he does not will; Romans 8.16: ‘The evil that I hate, I do.’ Therefore a man does not have free choice in his actions.”
-On Human Choice, Disputed Question on Evil, 6.22

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