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    It is not the case that The will is the primary source of freedom in a human being.

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    • 1.Aquinas argues the intellect moves the will by presenting its object (the good), making reason the formal cause of free choice.
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    • 2.If the will's exercise depends on the intellect's apprehension of the good, freedom is located in the rational judgment, not will alone.
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    • 3.Philip Chancellor's voluntarism thus conflates the efficient cause of action with the source of its freedom.
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    • 1.Frankfurt's hierarchical account shows freedom consists in the alignment of first- and second-order desires, not in an uncaused faculty of will.
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    • 2.A will that acts independently of rational structure is not free but arbitrary, since freedom requires reflective endorsement of one's motivations.
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    • 1.The will is not constrained by the structure of the world, by beliefs, or by the intellect's judgment.
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    • 2.In the final analysis, it is the will rather than the judgment of the intellect that determines the action the agent performs.
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    • 3.Because the will wills freely, the agent performs the action freely.
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