Liber Arbiter

by those who coined the term This entry introduces the central concept explored throughout the blog. For orientation, see the “Start Here” ...

For Boethius, Neoplatonist universals are only objects of rational minds. A rational nature possesses free will as its acts of volition cann...

Proclus holds the One (Neoplatonist unifying divine principle beyond being and thought) as the origin of the entire existence. The One foste...

For Augustinus, God is the immutable origin of the rationally hierarchical universe, in which there is a fundamental contrast between the in...

Founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus states that the core of all existence is the indefinable One, whose Intellect makes the primal principle o...

Man is free to manage his existence by accepting what is divinely predetermined and making appropriate choices when it comes to his own proc...

"A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty," this theoretician of free will points out. Seneca insists that natural ...