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| 19413 | If we know what is good or rational, our knowledge is extended, and our free will restricted |
| Full Idea: The more perfect one is, the more one is determined to the good, and so is more free at the same time. ...Our power and knowledge are more extended, and our will much the more limited within the bounds of perfect reason. | |||
| From: Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Pierre Bayle [1702], 1702) | |||
| A reaction: I like this idea, which seems to me to derive from Aquinas. When I choose to eat and drink each day, or agree that 7+5 is 12, I don't complain about my lack of freedom in the choices. Goodness and reason are constraints I welcome. |