Theological Theses · §1841 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

They require indifference and indetermination: the common description of freedom

They do not allow freedom without some indifference and indeterminacy in the free agent with respect to acting. Only those acts are free, they think, whose opposite we can do, or which we can at least leave undone and break off.

This follows the familiar description of freedom, which places it in this: given everything required beforehand for acting, the free agent can act or not act, and can do this or that.

Latin

XLI. Nec enim volunt libertatem esse sine quadam agentis liberi ad agendum indifferentia & indeterminatione; & eos solos actus liberos esse putant quorum contrarium facere possumus, aut saltem eos omittere, & ab iis cessare: juxta vulgarem illam libertatis descriptionem, per quam in eo consistere dicitur quod agens liberum positis omnibus ad agendum praerequisitis possit agere, vel non agere, hoc, aut illud agere.

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