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Do We Have Free Will? | Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.

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Are the Stars Deterministic?

Thomas Aquinas says that the stars incline you to certain behaviors, but they don't necessitate that behavior. He actually thinks that only the wise man is going to resist these impulses and urges. That explains why we have statistical predictability of sociological phenomena such as crime statistics.

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