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FREEDOM

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The power of intellect & will…

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…to act or not…

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…like this or like that…

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…in order to do good deliberately…

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…thus, to reach happiness

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But all freedoms are not equally blissful…

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Liberty is freedom

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But is liberty the perfect freedom of God’s children?

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Is it freedom?

The mentally ill may have liberty…

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‘A person is a slave of whatever overcomes him’

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What of his power to panic or not?

The phobic has liberty…

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Can he easily choose otherwise now?

He has liberty and he had a choice…

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Liberty is the freedomof external movement from physical restraint

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Liberty may coexist with the internal alienations

of folly, ignorance or overwhelming passions which limit our freedom

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Self-determination is freedom

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The Hebrews were freed from slavery, yet, they ‘became slaves to things that…are not God’

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Was it the freedom of God’s children?

Nazis enjoyed liberty and self-determination…

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‘Everyone [with liberty and self-determination] who commits sin is a slave of sin’

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The freedom of God?

Lucifer was free and deliberate…

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Self-determination is the freedom

of internal choice or deliberation from

ignorance and passion

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Self-determination may coexist with the

alienation of sin which leads to misery and

death

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‘Do not use freedom [liberty and self-

determination] as a pretext for evil’

Saint Paul

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Virtue is freedom

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Cardinal and theological virtues

are freedom

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The freedom of God?

‘This is my commandment: love one another as I love you … I no longer call you slaves’

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‘Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom’

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‘I am free … I have made myself a slave to all ’

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‘The free person … is a slave of Christ’

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Virtue is the freedomof love from sin

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Virtue is the perfect power, ‘by the aid of God's grace’ to act or not, like this or like that,

‘in the service of what is good’ ‘, and [to] come freely

to utter and blissful perfection’.