Summa
Summa
If you refer human will to predestination, there is no freedom in either external or internal actions; rather, everything happens according to divine destiny. If you refer to external actions, there seems to be some freedom in the judgment of nature. If you refer your will to your feelings, there’s really no freedom at all, even by nature's judgment. Once a person's emotions start to rage and stir, they can't be held back without bursting forth. You see, reader, how much more certainly we have written about free will than either Bernard or any of the Scholastics. Moreover, the things we've discussed so far will become clearer in the remaining parts of our summary. . Dlgltized.
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Si ad praedestinationem referas humanam voluntatem, nec in externis nec in internis operibus ulla est libertas, sed eveniunt omnia juxta destinationem divinam.
Si ad opera externa referas voluntatem, quaedam videtur esse, judicio naturae, libertas.
Si ad adfectus referas voluntatem, nulla plane libertas est, etiam naturae judicio.
Jam ubi adfectus coeperit furere et aetuare, cohiberi non potest, quin errumpat.
Vides, lector, quanto certius de libero arbitrio scripserimus, quam vel Bernardus vel ulli Scholastici.
Porro haec, quae hactenus disputavimus, subinde clarescent in reliquis compendii nostri locis ). .
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