Whether this freedom excludes only compulsion or also necessity; older scholastics: compulsion only
Nobody questions that this freedom shuts out compulsion before all else. The question is whether compulsion is the only thing it excludes, or necessity as well, and whether in a rational agent it is enough to be exempt from compulsion.
In fact a fair number of the older scholastics seem to have held that freedom of choice, taken in general, is opposed not to necessity as such but only to compulsion.
Latin
XIV. Nulli quoque dubium est quin libertas de qua hic, coactionem maxime excludat; sed quaeritur an soli coactioni opponatur, non etiam necessitati; & an ad eam sufficiat in agente rationali, immunitas a coactione? Et quidem non pauci inter veteres Scholasticos in ea videntur fuisse sententia libertatem arbitrii in genere consideratam, oppositam non esse necessitati simpliciter, sed coactioni tantum.