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Episode 26 – Aquinas on Human Freedom and Free Will | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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The Power of the Soul

Aquinas defines free will as the power to love, the capacity to love. The point or the purpose of a free will is just to choose what is truly good. Free dumb is not just the same as a free will; it's a property of the free will. A person who has by free will, chosen what is trulygood, again and again, grows that perfect freedom.

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