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Aquinas, Freedom, and the Brain | Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.

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What Is the Difference Between Predestination and Free Will?

We can predict even a wise persons going to eat. Does that mean the wise person is not free? No, we all do that. For example, it's lent or yor fasting, or something like that. So predictable that the basic inclinations that we have will be followed. But there can be further reasons why we don't follow them. And maybe wise people have further reasons. They look at e participation in the greater goods of life, including in the very life of god. That is what we want. We don't strive to er, you know, follow other kinds of determinis. I stlive.

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