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Plotinus - Eighth Tractate - On Free will and the will of the One
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Plotinus - Eighth Tractate - On Free will and the will of the One
Should we perhaps, distinguish between compulsion in the act and freedom in the preceding will and reasoning?............
Our freedom is found to lie not in act but in Intellectual-Principle immune from act….
Where act is performed neither because of another nor at another’s will, there surely is freedom. Freedom may of course be an inappropriate term; there is something greater here; it is self disposal in the sense only that there is no disposal by the extern, no outside master over the act….
The involuntary is precisely motion away from a good and towards the enforced, towards something not recognised as a good, servitude lies in being powerless to move towards one’s good, being debarred from the preferred path in a menial obedience