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In the last chapter, I examined two negative conditions which Augustine gives for voluntary action, namely that such action should (i) not be compelled and (ii) not be done in ignorance. I also raised the question whether Augustine, like Aristotle, gives any positive conditions for voluntary action.
If the action is not free, there is no voluntas.
Augustine, de Duabus Animabus, 15
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Chappell, T.D.J. (1995). Voluntas and the Voluntary. In: Aristotle and Augustine on Freedom. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379510_6
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