Seneca (4 BC – AD 65)

"A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty," this theoretician of free will points out. Seneca insists that natural events should be explained through natural laws. Although the order of things is divinely predetermined, the soul (which is corporeal, monadic and rational) allows knowledge to influence proceeding. Inner impulses will lead to action in the absence of external impediments. Man manifests freedom of will in that he can control his actions by means of judgment and perform voluntary, virtuous deeds.