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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> FREEDOM
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> The power of intellect & will…
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> …to act or not…
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> …like this or like that…
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> …in order to do good deliberately…
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> …thus, to reach happiness
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> But all freedoms are not equally blissful…
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Liberty is freedom
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> But is liberty the perfect freedom of God’s children?
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Is it freedom? The mentally ill may have liberty…
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> ‘A person is a slave of whatever overcomes him’
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> What of his power to panic or not? The phobic has liberty…
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Can he easily choose otherwise now? He has liberty and he had a choice…
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Liberty is the freedom of external movement from physical restraint
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Liberty may coexist with the internal alienations of folly, ignorance or overwhelming passions which limit our freedom
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Self-determination is freedom
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> The Hebrews were freed from slavery, yet, they ‘became slaves to things that…are not God’
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Was it the freedom of God’s children? Nazis enjoyed liberty and self-determination…
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> ‘Everyone [with liberty and self-determination] who commits sin is a slave of sin’
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> The freedom of God? Lucifer was free and deliberate…
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Self-determination is the freedom of internal choice or deliberation from ignorance and passion
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Self-determination may coexist with the alienation of sin which leads to misery and death
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> ‘Do not use freedom [liberty and self- determination] as a pretext for evil’ Saint Paul
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Virtue is freedom
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Cardinal and theological virtues are freedom
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> 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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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> ‘Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom’
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> ‘I am free … I have made myself a slave to all ’
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> ‘The free person … is a slave of Christ’
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Virtue is the freedom of love from sin
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>>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> 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’.
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