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'Through the Looking Glass', 'fragments/reports' and 'Quaestiones Disputatae de Malo'
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 3. Constraints on the will
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1855
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If we saw something as totally and utterly good, we would be compelled to will it [Aquinas]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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1856
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Nothing can be willed except what is good, but good is very varied, and so choices are unpredictable [Aquinas]
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1862
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However habituated you are, given time to ponder you can go against a habit [Aquinas]
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1849
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Since will is a reasoning power, it can entertain opposites, so it is not compelled to embrace one of them [Aquinas]
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1861
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The will is not compelled to move, even if pleasant things are set before it [Aquinas]
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1853
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Because the will moves by examining alternatives, it doesn't compel itself to will [Aquinas]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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1854
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We must admit that when the will is not willing something, the first movement to will must come from outside the will [Aquinas]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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1770
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When a slave said 'It was fated that I should steal', Zeno replied 'Yes, and that you should be beaten' [Zeno of Citium, by Diog. Laertius]
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3799
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A dog tied to a cart either chooses to follow and is pulled, or it is just pulled [Zeno of Citium, by Hippolytus]
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